{"id":36805,"date":"2024-05-19T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T13:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=36805"},"modified":"2024-05-19T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T13:06:41","slug":"citizen-moves-nab-seeking-probe-into-wheat-import-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/citizen-moves-nab-seeking-probe-into-wheat-import-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen moves NAB seeking probe into &#8216;wheat import scandal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A complaint seeking probe into the wheat scandal has been filed with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the complaint, the former caretaker food security minister in an interview with a private news channel made disclosures about the wheat scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dr. Kausar Abdullah Malik disclosed that the wheat was imported when four million tonnes of the grain was already in stock, the complainant said. &#8220;<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dr Kausar Abdullah said that Captain (retd) Mohammad Mehmood was the secretary of <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">food<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> security at the time of the wheat import,&#8221; <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">according to the complaint to NAB.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/federal-govt-to-end-solar-net-meter-policy\/\">Federal govt to end solar net metering policy?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ur\">\u0646\u06cc\u0628 \u06a9\u0648 \u06af\u0646\u062f\u0645 \u0627\u0645\u067e\u0648\u0631\u0679 \u0633\u06a9\u06cc\u0646\u0688\u0644 \u06a9\u06cc \u067e\u06c1\u0644\u06cc \u0628\u0691\u06cc \u062a\u062d\u0631\u06cc\u0631\u06cc \u0634\u06a9\u0627\u06cc\u062a \u062f\u06d2 \u062f\u06cc \u06af\u0626\u06cc<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/abnnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#abnnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GKzKryUbiF\">pic.twitter.com\/GKzKryUbiF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABN NEWS (@abnnewspk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abnnewspk\/status\/1792169583228440757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The complainant has held the PASSCO, Food Department Pu<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">njab, and <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> ministries of commerce and finance responsible for the Rs 300 billion loss that the country suffered owing to unnecessary wheat import<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The complainant has requested <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the anti-graft watch for an immediate investigation of the matter and action against those involved in the scandal. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The copies of the complaint have also been forwarded to the President, Prime Minister, registrars of the Supreme Court, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0the Lahore High Court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A complaint seeking probe into the wheat scandal has been filed with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday. According to the complaint, the former caretaker food security minister in an interview with a private news channel made disclosures about the wheat scandal. Dr. Kausar Abdullah Malik disclosed that the wheat was imported when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[177,16773,16245],"class_list":["post-36805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-nab","tag-pakistan-wheat-scandal","tag-wheat-import-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}