TO GO WITH Pakistan-unrest-vote-politics-development-education,FOCUS by Khurram Shahzad
In this photograph taken on June 5, 2013, shows Pakistani employees walking beside metro buses parked at a terminal in the provincial capital Lahore. Pakistanis are hoping their new prime minister will roll out high-profile projects that became his party's trademark in its political heartland of Punjab, but the nation's dire finances threaten the optimism. The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) won huge popularity and a reputation for getting things done with a series of big-ticket schemes over the past five years in Punjab, the country's richest, most populous province. A metro bus system in the provincial capital Lahore -- the first such scheme in the country's 65-year history -- free laptops and solar energy panels for students and a network of high-quality schools in poor rural areas made Punjab the envy of Pakistan. AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI
MULTAN: An accountability court on Friday granted a 14-day physical remand of six accused of the Metro Bus Project (MBP) to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
The NAB authorities produced the accused in the court of District and Sessions Judge (D&SJ) Abdul Hameed and requested for 15 days remand of former chief engineer MBP Sabir Khan Sadozai and five other officials of the MDA, who were arrested on Thursday. However, the court granted 14 days remand.
The accused would again appear before the court on Sept 26, says an official of NAB Multan.
Those who were arrested on Thursday included MDA XENs Riaz Hussain and Amanat, while SDOs Moanam Saeed, Rana Wasim and Manzoor Hussian and ex-chief engineer Sabir Khan Sadozai were arrested earlier.
