HYDERABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned 42 serving and former officers of Sindh local government department for investigation in a corruption case, who were posted in various districts of Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions.
According a call up notice issued by a Karachi based deputy director on September 20 two former Sindh Local Government Secretaries, Ali Ahmed Lund and Javed Hanif Khan, were among the summoned officers.
“The competent authority has taken cognizance of the offence(s) of corruption and corrupt practices inter alia by misusing their authority and making illegal appointments in [the] local government department,” reads the NAB’s notice.
According to the notice, the offence is cognizable under section 9 (a) of the NAB Ordinance, 1999, and punishable with up to 14 years after conviction under section 10 of the Ordinance.
The officers include Wali Muhammad Shah, Orangzeb Samo, Ali Asghar Bhand, Rafiq Shaikh, Pir Abdul Waheed Shah, Munawar Mallah, Fakhr Shakir, Ali Akbar Bhurt, Pervez Chandio, Ali Gohar Sahto, Maqsood Mallah, Mazhar Ali Chajro, Pervez Bhutto, Prem Kumar, Abdul Hameed Shaikh, Abdul Shakoor Abro, Ansar Ahmed Memon, Syed Imran Hyder Shah, Shakeel Ahmed Memon, Ghulam Mustafa Zounr, Aftab Ahmed Mughal, Azad Nidwani, Shaukat Memon, Azhar Memon, Munawar Zareef, Abdul Qadir Notiar, Nizamuddin Shaikh, Aijaz Ahmed Panhwar, Ramzan Pathan, Riaz Ahmed Sahto, Nizamuddin Magsi, Faqeer Mataro Khan Mangrio, Fareed Ahmed, Muhammad Paryal Shahani, Abdul Jaleel Thebo, Manzoor Ahmed Samejo and Nazar Ali Shah.
They are either currently posted at or had previously worked in Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, District Council Dadu, municipal committees and town committees of Matiari, Jamshoro, Dadu, Hyderabad, Thatta, Sujawal, Tharparkar, Tando Muhammad Khan, Badin, Umerkot, Tando Allahyar and Mirpurkhas.
The NAB’s notice has directed the summoned officers to appear before the NAB inquiry officer in Pak Secretariat in Karachi on September 26.
