ISLAMABAD – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has asked the Interior Ministry to place names of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi and two others on the Exit Control List (ECL).
Qazi, who served as the railways minister during the military regime of Gen Pervez Musharraf, and former marketing director of the Pakistan Railways, Khalid Naqi, and director of the Hasnain Construction Company, Ramzan Sheikh, are facing a corruption reference for their alleged involvement in award of a contract on railways land.
“It is alleged that the accused persons in connivance with each other illegally awarded the contract/lease of 140 acres land of Railways Golf Club, Lahore, which caused huge loss of Rs2.16bn [approximately] to the national exchequer,” says the NAB letter that recommended the placement of the names of the three persons on the ECL.
NAB has now decided to reopen the corruption reference against four former senior army officers, including Javed Ashraf Qazi.
The army officers are accused of transferring tens of hundreds of acres of prime railway land in Lahore to a Malaysian firm during Gen Musharraf’s regime in 2001 for development of a golf course called Royal Palms Gold and Country Club at throwaway rates.
Retired Lt Gen Qazi served as director general of the ISI and retired Lt Gen Saeed-uz-Zafar is a former Peshawar corps commander.
The ex-servicemen were summoned by NAB in the same case in 2012 for recording their statements but nothing was done against them.
