DI KHAN, FEB 25 (DNA) – A young man, who played an active role in the sit-in held recently in Islamabad to protest against the killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud, was found shot dead under mysterious circumstances in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday. The bullet-ridden body of Aftab Mehsud has been found at an under-construction house in the city’s Naqeshbund Town. Media reports suggest a piece of paper was found with the body on which names of the victim and his father and his telephone number were written. Aftab’s father registered theRead More

LAHORE, FEB 25 (DNA) – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday arrested the owner of an engineering firm in connection with the Ashiyana Housing Scheme scam as the civil bureaucracy in Punjab failed to develop a consensus on protest against the arrest of Ahmad Khan Cheema, the former director general of Lahore Development Authority (LDA). The arrest of Shahid Shafiq Alam, the owner of Bismillah Engineering Services, apparently came on the information provided by Cheema. Security at the NAB’s Lahore headquarters was, meanwhile, beefed up as extra contingents ofRead More

KARACHI, FEB 25 (DNA) – The Sindh government on Saturday approved formation of a new Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the 2013 murder of Parween Rehman, the then director of Orangi Pilot Project (OPP). The fresh move has come on the request made by Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D. Khawaja, authorities said. Rehman was gunned down by unidentified armed men back in March 2013 near Banaras fly-over in Orangi Town. She had been actively campaigning against land and water mafia in the city, particularly in the suburbsRead More

ISLAMABAD, FEB 25 (DNA) – NAB has termed point of view of Punjab Govt and said that Punjab Land Development Company (a company owned by GoP) through an agreement dated 20.01.2015 assigned the Project of Asshina Iqbal (a low cast housing project of Govt. of Punjab) to LDA. Accused, Ahad Khan Cheema, being Director General LDA, by misuse of authority and with criminal intent prepared, processed, recommended, presented and got approved fraudulent and illegal Request for Proposal and bidding documents to grant undue and illegal benefit by awarding contract ofRead More