ISLAMABAD: Interpol, an international criminal police organisation, has issued a certificate stating that former chief of Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Asif Hashmi is not wanted by the international police, as reported by a local English daily. An approximate Rs12 million was spent on the case overall, despite the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) findings displaying that all necessary recoveries had been made in this case. He had fled the country to avoid arrest. Hashmi allegedly sold the ETPB 1,946 kanals of land to DHA on a 25 per cent exemption basis in 2009, whereas the same land was recommended by former ETPB chairman Gen Zulfiqar Ali Khan on a 33 per cent exemption basis to DHA in 2001. The land was situated in Dera Chahal, Lidher and Mota and difference of 8 per cent caused loss of Rs 2 billion while another 225 kanals was evacuated from DHA which was occupied with the connivance of ETPB officials and Hashmi team.

Source: Pakistan Today January 01, 2018 05:48 UTC