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LAHORE - Before the shifting of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore's staff to the newly-constructed NAB Complex in Thokar Niaz Baig, snakes have occupied the building and have started to make their appearance from different corners of the complex. During the last four days, three snakes (including a nine feet long) appeared from the different corners of the newly-constructed complex and were killed. No snakebites were reported.
The NAB Lahore staff started shifting

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday adjourned the hearing on a petition challenging the appointment of Rana Zahid Mehmood as NAB Punjab director general.Earlier, Naseem Kahsmiri, deputy attorney general, sought time for filing a reply on behalf of the federal government. At this, the bench comprising Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and Justice Sheikh Ahmad Farooq deferred proceedings until April 28. Shah Faisal Qureshi, the petitioner, submitted that Zahid's

LAHORE - An accountability court has ordered the Punjab chapter of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to confiscate three vehicles including a BMW and Mercedes owned by Raja Riaz, owner of Raja Centre Main Market Gulberg, who had been declared a proclaimed offender (P/O) by the court.
A reference had been filed against Raja Riaz in the accountability court on charges of financial irregularities in the funds of a co-operative institution. During the hearing, the court

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday again sought reply from the attorney general, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman and Punjab Police inspector general on a petition challenging appointment of NAB Punjab Director General Rana Zahid Mehmood. On Monday, nobody appeared on behalf of the respondents on which the petitioner's counsel alleged that the Punjab government was deliberately delaying submission of replies.
He pointed out that Zahid's

LAHORE - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab is in the midst of a severe financial crisis after completely exhausting its annual financial allocation and is having to borrow hefty sums from NAB Balochistan for its everyday expenditures and employees' salaries.
The financial crisis has come mostly because of policies adopted by the top brass of NAB Punjab who, in spite of the bureau being short of funds, have recently raised the salaries of prosecutors employed on

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted for regular hearing a petition seeking dismissal of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Deputy Chairman Javed Zia Qazi and issued notices to the respondents - the federation, law minister, law secretary and establishment division secretary.
A three-member Supreme Court bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Justice Amir Hani Muslim told by petitioner Habibul Wahabul Khairi advocate that NAB's former

LAHORE - A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday sought reply until April 11 from the federal government on a petition seeking to restrain National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab Director General (DG) Rana Zahid Mehmood from working until decision on the petition against his appointment.
Shah Faisal Qureshi clubbed the petition with his earlier petition against the appointment of the NAB Punjab DG. The petitioner submitted that Zahid was committing illegalities

LAHORE - A petition was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday seeking to restrain National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab DG Rana Zahid Mahmood from working, as a petition against his appointment is already pending in court. Shah Faisal Qureshi clubbed the petition with his earlier petition against the appointment of the NAB Punjab DG. The petitioner submitted that Zahid was committing illegalities during pendency of the case against his appointment. Qureshi said that

ISLAMABAD - A petition was moved in the Supreme Court (SC) to review the court's March 1 order regarding the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Amended Ordinance of 2010. The court, on March 1, had dismissed the writ petitions against the NAB Amended Ordinance 2010. Applicant Shahid Orakza, who had challenged the NAB Amended Ordinance 2010, filed a review petition on the court's decision on Thursday. He questioned whether the SC could ignore an alleged violation of the constitution

LAHORE - An accountability court on Monday extended the physical remand of seven people nominated in a case of fraudulent withdrawal of money from Punjab accountant general office until April 11. The seven people are Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Ali, Shoaib Sardar, Kashif Iqbal, Imran Shah, Sajawal Ashraf and Gulfam Rasool Khan. Among the accused, Muhammad Ahmad, Ghulam Rasool Khan, Muhammad Shakeel and Muhammad Waseem were illegally shown as sub-inspector, assistant sub-inspector and

RAWALPINDI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to contact Interpol to bring former president Pervez Musharraf back to Pakistan in order to ensure an immediate implementation of arrest warrant issued by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) for his alleged involvement in Benazir Bhutto's murder.
FIA prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar told reporters on Saturday that the agency would approach Interpol for arresting Mushrraf after the court ordered immediate implementation of the

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has referred Rs 110 million embezzlement case of defunct Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) to the National Accountability Bureau. The project deprecator Irfanullah and a few of his aides have been accused of scam.
TPP was a Musharraf era pilot health project (2003-2005). According to FIA sources, project director Irfanullah was still at large but the agency had arrested some of his accomplices involved in making fraudulent purchases

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court issued its detailed judgment regarding the case of the appointment of Justice (Retd) Deedar Hussain Shah as Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday.
The court, in its 30-page ruling that was penned by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, termed 'necessary' the government's consultation with the opposition leader and Chief Justice on NAB chairman's appointment.
A three-judge bench of the apex court had issued a short ruling about

ISLAMABAD - Responding to a letter by President Asif Ali Zardari seeking consultation over the appointment of Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah as the NAB chairman, Opposition Leader Nisar Ali Khan on Monday proposed the formation of a panel of suitable candidates for the post for consolation purposes and to facilitate the development of a consensus amongst the consultants.
Nisar, however, avoided categorically rejecting the president's proposal of Justice (r) Shah's appointment

LAHORE - Three people involved in different scams were handed over to Punjab and Sindh chapters of the National Accountability Bureau on remand on Thursday. RS 311M DEFAULTER: An accountability court on Thursday handed over Abdul Qadir Jhangda to NAB Sindh on transit remand of two days. Qadir is involved in a case of 'willful default' of Rs 311 million borrowed from KASB and National Bank of Pakistan. Qadir, son of Muhammad Ramzan, a business tycoon of Karachi, will be produced before

KARACHI - A leading exporter has been arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) -Sindh for alleged wilful bank default of Rs311 million. According to an announcement of NAB-Sindh on Wednesday, Abdul Qadir Jangda, proprietor of M/S Bukhari Commercial Exporters was arrested from Lahore for defaulting on commitments to KASB Bank and National Bank, and submitting fake property documents.
A complaint was filed through the State Bank governor against Jangda, and Muhammed

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday issued notice to the Interior Ministry and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman on a petition challenging Rana Zahid Mehmood's appointment as Punjab NAB director general (DG).
The bench comprising Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain and Justice Ahmad Farooq Sheikh issued notice to the attorney general , Punjab advocate general, Federal Investigation Agency and the police inspector general (IG) for