NAB rejects 'one-sided propaganda' campaign.

ISLAMABAD -- National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Sunday vehemently repudiated a malicious propaganda campaign being carried out in a section of media to malign the anti-graft watchdog by casting lopsided aspersions over NAB.

A spokesman of NAB said in a statement that NAB would not bow down under any propaganda campaign whatsoever about its transparent, fair and meritocratic workings.

The context used in some of the said media reports are premised on deliberate conjecturing and assumptions based on cherry picked surmises which are far from true facts aimed only to bring disrepute and discredit NAB.

He urged the media to avoid airing/publishing concocted, baseless, false, and incorrect stories about the working of NAB without seeking the official viewpoint of the bureau.

Clarifying media reports about Land of Kidney Hill area in Karachi, he said the land was reserved for development of Public Park, which was proposed by Karachi Development Authority (KDA) in 1966.

In 1973, Overseas Housing Society managed allotment of Kidney Hill land from Karachi Cooperative Housing Societies Union and also got approval of the Layout Plan from the Ministry of Housing and Works which was suspended in 1979 and subsequently cancelled in 1984.

The status of Kidney Hill land is determined as Amenity land by Supreme Court of Pakistan vides judgment dated August 06,2019 in CMA No. 592-K/2018.

M Aijaz Haroon made backdated illegal and unlawful allotment of 12 plots of Overseas Society in the name of various builders and subsequently managed their ownership through open transfer letters.

Later on, Saleem Mandviwalla and Aijaz Haroon, knowingly and willingly, entered into a property deal with Abdul Ghani Majeed of Omni Group and received Rs 144 million approximately from fake bank accounts namely A-One International and Lucky International. M Aijaz Haroon and Saleem Mandiwalla shared crime proceeds of Rs 80 million and Rs 64.5 million respectively. Out of said shady deal, Saleem Mandviwalla retained a substantial amount of deal which is highly unusual rather next to impossible in any bonafide property deal. The retention of huge amounts and utilization of crime proceeds outweigh his contention of being a bonafide facilitator / broker of deal and illustrate his complicity in property deal.

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