LAHORE - PPP leader Senator Rehman Malik on Wednesday said that he would expose another big scandal of Sharif brothers after which people rather voting for them would not like even to see them. Rehman Malik stated both Shahbaz Sharif and Ishaq Dar were liars and they always used tricks to befool ...

Demanding independent probe into the captive power scam, the All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Thursday said that the policy of providing subsidised gas to 113 influential owners of private power plants has taken heavy toll of economy and masses as well.During a press conference held here in ...

LAHORE – An inquiry into a multi-million rupees scam in the Livestock and Dairy Development (L&DD) is most likely to be closed without recovery of the amount involved. Out of the total eight officers suspected of their involvement into the scam, six have already been exonerated, while the ...

LAHORE – A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Sheikh Afzal of Haris Steel Mills, involved in Bank of Punjab scam.Bench comprising Justice Khawaja Imtiaz Ahmed and Justice Khalid Mehmood issued this order by accepting bail petition of Afzal. The petitioner ...

KARACHI - The Federal Anti-Corruption Court on Wednesday granted interim bail till April 29 to senior PPP leader and former Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim in the multi-million-rupee NICL land scam case.Sanaullah Khan Ghauri, the In-charge judge of the court gave Fahim bail in the sum of ...

LAHORE - Protesting the criminal step of the outgoing rulers to stash away billions of rupees, the business community has asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan to probe a financial scam, involving advances made on political consideration just before the assembly was dissolved to end the five-year ...

LAHORE –Punjab National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday claimed to have arrested two accused allegedly involved in embezzlement of Rs 22 millions. In first case, Imran Rafique was arrested for getting loan of Rs 20 millions fraudulently. Imran’s father and others were also ...

The Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that passport of former chairman Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) Tauqeer Sadiq had been cancelled and instructions had been sent to the Interpol for arrest orders against him.A two-member bench of the apex court comprising Justice Jawad S. Khawaja ...

NEW DELHI  - Bollywood starlet Nupur Mehta on Monday refuted reports of her involvement in any match-fixing ring which allegedly used the actor as honeytrap to lure cricketers. Mehta warned that she will take legal action against the British paper The Sunday Times which came out with the ...

LAHORE – The issue of occupation of GOR-I residences and luxurious official vehicles by some favourite retired bureaucrats of the provincial government continue its grip over the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday. While, the members also raised hue and cry over the corruption in data entry section ...

LAHORE – It has been two months since the FIA is waiting for a go-ahead from the interior ministry to carry forward its probe into NFC corruption scandal. The agency has unearthed misappropriation of over Rs70 million and believes it’s just a tip of the iceberg.The ministry has held a ...

LAHORE (PR) – Nasir Gujjar of the PML-N has said that Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif has taken strict notice of the deaths due to the reaction of substandard medicines provided by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology.  In a statement issued on Monday, Gujjar regretted that drug laboratories ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Accountability Bureau has constituted two teams to investigate the International Security Assistance Force containers scam and other special cases.The officers of team-I would attach with Special Operation Division for investigation of the special cases and the containers ...

LAHORE – Anti Corruption Establishment failed on Thursday to arrest accused allegedly involved in paper leakage scam of University of Engineering & Technology (UET). Sources claimed that about 20 people were involved in leakage of Entry Test question paper of UET last July and out of them ...

KARACHI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), on Friday, arrested seven officials of the Sindh Home Department, Foreigners Registration Branch and Passport Office Karachi for extending visas of Indian nationals without following the legal procedures. The racket was also accused of ...

ISLAMABAD - Supreme Court judge Justice Sair Ali on Tuesday recused from the bench hearing bail application of the main accused of Bank of Punjab Rs 9 billions loan scam, Sheikh Afzal. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani adjourned the bail plea of ...

DASKA - The Anti Corruption Establishment auditors have detected great financial irregularities of Rs 32 million in Daska TMAs Maps & Commercial Fees Collection Branch. In the light of the audit reports conducted by the special teams, the Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) has started a special ...

LAHORE A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday extended till August 16 the earlier granted interim bail to three persons accused in Rs1.38 billion forex-cum-property scam of Qasre Zauq Banquet Hall, near Liberty Market. The accused included former provincial minister Iqbal Tikka, Rana ...

LAHORE - District and Sessions Judge Lahore will take up hearing of National Insurance Corporation Ltd (NICL) land scam case today against PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi, the son of former Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. Judge Malik Abdul Rasheed on last July 5 had refused to continue ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - Rs350 million embezzlement in the Revenue Department in Mandi Bahauddin has rocked people of the district and officials as well but some blue-eyed patwaris are still enjoying impunity despite serious embezzlements, sources revealed. After the summons of all revenue officials on ...

RAWALPINDI - Special Judge Central (SJC) Wednesday granted interim bail to PML-N MNA Anjum Aqeel Khan till July 19, 2011 in the case of National Police Foundation (NPF) land scam of Rs 6 billion and directed to submit surety bonds of worth Rs 2 million. It is worth to mention here that PML-N ...

Last week Barack Obama announced that he wants to cut $400 billion in military spending and said he would work with Secretary of Defence Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs on a fundamental review of US military missions, capabilities and our role in a changing world before making a ...

LAHORE - An accountability court on Wednesday extended, by another 15 days, the physical remand of Adil Saleem, the son-in-law of ex-MPA Iqbal Tikka who has allegedly misappropriated million of rupees in the Qasr-e-Zauq property scam. The court also ordered the Punjab authorities of the NAB to ...

LAHORE While the IMF team in Islamabad is prodding the federal government on revenue generation, the tax authorities have detected usury fraud to the tune of billions of rupees in the provincial metropolis. Tax experts in the cash-strapped country are focusing on unearthing parallel banking ...

KARACHI The Sindh High Court on Monday granted protective bail to Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi, against a surety of Rs 0.7 million in the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam case. A division bench, comprising Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai and ...

ISLAMABAD The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has formally summoned Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilanis son Abdul Qadir Gilani in the Haj corruption scam after he failed to appear before the FIA to record his statement on Monday. However, the agency didnt offer any official statement what ...

LAHORE The Federal Investigation Agency has pressurised Muhammad Maalik, the accused in the NICL scam, to record his statement against some political figures in order to arrest them for settling political scores. In a press statement issued on Friday, Senator Kamil Ali Ahga, PML-Q central ...

KARACHI - Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Sindh Moazzam Jan Ansari has said that the record of DG FIA Waseem Ahmed has been brought on the directives of Supreme Court. In a press conference at his office, Moazam said that Rs 26 billion have been misappropriated in the Steel Mill ...

LAHORE National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab has summoned sixteen peoples including former attorney general of Pakistan Malik Muhammad Qayyum, former inspector general of Punjab Azhar Hasan Nadeem, uncle of former LHC judge Sheikh Rasheed, Senator Gulzar Ahmed Khan and his sons Senator Waqar ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Indias premier defended himself against accusations of inaction in a 40-billion-dollar telecoms scandal on Saturday as he promised that anyone found guilty in the case would be punished. Manmohan Singh is accused of failing to act on allegations that his telecoms minister had ...