Key official’s arrest may leave govt red-faced

<div class="grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.31em; line-height: 17.99993896484375px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="grid__item two-thirds palm--one-whole" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; letter-spacing: normal; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 465.328125px; word-spacing: normal;"> <div class="push-half--sides push--top" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 9px !important; margin-right: 9px !important; margin-top: 18px !important;"> <h1 class="story__title push-half--top" data-id="1104228" data-type="story" data-via="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 1.42857em; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 9px !important; padding: 0.1em 0px 0.45em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"> <a class="story__link size-eleven" href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1104228/key-officials-arrest-may-leave-govt-red-faced" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.57143rem !important; text-decoration: none;">Key official’s arrest may leave govt red-faced</a></h1> <div class="story__time" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #880044; font-size: 0.85714em;"> <table class="media media--left one-whole palm--one-whole" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; table-layout: fixed; width: 505px; word-spacing: normal;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="media__item " style="-webkit-user-select: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 303px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><img alt="File photo" src="http://i.dawn.com/primary/2014/05/53674816791a9.jpg?r=1854594752" style="border: 0px; bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; left: 0px; margin: auto; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px;" title="File photo" /></td></tr> <tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="media__caption media__caption--black" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-size: 0.85714em; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.85; padding: 0.45em;"><div class="media__excerpt" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px;"> File photo</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.31em; line-height: 17.99993896484375px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="grid__item three-quarters palm--one-whole" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; letter-spacing: normal; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 523.5px; word-spacing: normal;"> <article class="story story--single push-half" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 1.14286em; margin: 9px !important; overflow: hidden;"><div class="story__body soft--top" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 18px !important;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ISLAMABAD: In what seems like a move tailored to embarrass the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has picked up the head of a government-run power board — who is supposed to be a key part of the ground-breaking ceremony for a 1,320 megawatt power project scheduled to be held in Karachi on Tuesday.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> According to NAB spokesperson Ramzan Sajid, the bureau arrested on Sunday <a href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1104137/nab-arrests-top-energy-tycoons" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">three people</a> in connection with a Rs22 billion rental power project (RPP) scam. The three men picked up are Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) Managing Director N.A. Zuberi and two former chief executive officers of Lakhra Power Generation Company Limited (LPGCL-Genco) Anwar Brohi and Muhammad Jamil. The former was taken into custody from Islamabad while the other two were picked up from Karachi.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> The NAB spokesperson said the bureau was investigating the allegedly illegal award of contract to M/s Karkey Karadenize Electric Uretium, a Turkish company, for the commissioning of a rental power project in Karachi. An agreement to this effect was signed between Karkey and LPGCL, he added.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"> “The three men in custody are accused of causing massive losses to the national exchequer by extending undue favours to the Turkish firm,” he said.</div> </div> </article></div> </div>

Key official’s arrest may leave govt red-faced

Key official’s arrest may leave govt red-faced File photo ISLAMABAD: In what seems like a move tailored to embarrass the...

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