The reg
ional office of the Nat
ional Accountability Bureau (NAB) has approved an inquiry into alleged corruption by officers of various departments of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government.
In a meeting of the reg
ional NAB board under NAB KP Director General Farmanullah Khan, an inquiry was approved against officials of
the provincial administration department for their alleged role in corruption worth millions of rupees in the KP House, Islamabad.
According t
o a NAB statement, an inquiry was also ordered against officials of the P
ublic Works Department and Peshawar Electric Supply Company for their alleged role in doling out illegal contracts for the NA-8 constituency.
Moreover, an inquiry was ordered aga
inst tehsil municipal administration over the award of an illegal contract for establishing a fruit market.
Similarly, the NAB reg
ional board ordered a probe aga
inst the tourism department over alleged corruption in the Kamal Area Project as well as aga
inst the illegal cutting of trees in Chitral.
Published in Daily Times, July 21st 2018.