The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday arrested the private secretary to the North West Frontier Province education secretary for allegedly accumulating assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
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NAB officials arrested Iftikhar Ahmad Bhatti in Peshawar and will produce him before the Accountability Court for remand. A NAB statement issued here said Mr Bhatti belonged to a family of Azad Kashmir who migrated to Peshawar during the 1950s and he joined government service as a steno typist in 1976 with a salary of Rs 180 per month. Later, Mr Bhatti was promoted to the private secretary for the education secretary. The statement said that during his tenure as private secretary, the accused and his spouse purchased plots and national savings certificates worth Rs 12,260,000, which were grossly disproportionate to their legal sources of income. |