Summary The corruption reference will be filed after his four-day physical remand in police custody ends.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – It seems problems are far from over for former Minister for Petroleum and Pakistan Peoples Party’s chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s close confidant Dr. Asim Hussain. After a 90 day remand in Rangers custody and subsequent terror charges booked against him by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC), the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has also moved against Dr. Asim, implicating him in three major corruption cases. The development was revealed during the Dunya News program “Dunya Kamran Khan Kay Sath”.
In the corruption reference prepared against him, Dr. Asim has been accused of money-laundering, illegal allotment of land and running Ziauddin Trust hospital on a commercial basis along with other illegal activities including issuance of licenses for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations during government ban, allowing illegal affiliation of private medical colleges with Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and unlawful issuance of degrees to unqualified doctors.
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The corruption reference will be filed after his four-day physical remand in police custody ends. NAB will request a 90-day remand from the court in this matter.
NAB had earlier been investigating the corruption allegations levelled against Dr Asim.
Earlier on Thursday, Dr. Asim booked by the ATC and handed over for police custody on a four-day physical remand. A case was registered against him in North Nazimabad Police Station under Anti-Terrorism Act after 90-day remand in Rangers custody expired this month. He is accused of providing shelter to terrorists and gang war criminals and their treatment in his hospital.
The authorities have stated that Asim had given safe havens to terrorists on requests by MQM leaders including Rauf Siddique, Waseem Akhtar, Saleem Shahzad and Anees Qaimkhani.
The first information report (FIR) further accuses Asim of graft as he pocketed bribes to recruit employees in Pakistan State Oil (PSO) and Sui Southern Gas as their administrator. He has been alleged of forwarding contracts to companies and different persons whoever ‘offered him the highest.’
