ACE grills former VC Agricultural University on corruption charges

An FIR was registered against former VC Rana Iqrar Ahmad Khan and former registrar Ch. Muhammad Hussain of Agriculture University in lieu of corruption charges of millions of rupees, nepotism, and abuse of power.
According to Anti-Corruption Punjab, the case has been registered in Anti-Corruption Faisalabad.
Rana Iqrar illegally hired gazetted and non gazzeted staff on the basis of nepotism. Rana Iqrar worked continuously as VC for nine long years and achieved new heights of corruption. Rana Iqrar hired 608 individuals illegally. 138 among them were gazzetted officers while 470 were non-gazetted officers. Rana violated all the laws during recruitment process including the constitution of Pakistan, govermnent of Punjab’s regulations and University Act. He caused a loss of 42 crores to national treasury.
While holding the portfolio of VC he worked on a dual post as Project Director in a US Aid Project and drew double salary.
He received a salary of 4.25 million as Project Director of an NGO and awarded himself 9 million rupees as honorarium without the approval of Chancellor. Other financial misconduct of suspects are also under investigation by the authorities, spokesman for ACE concluded.
FIA SUMMONS SALMAN SHEHBAZ
In the money laundering case, the FIA’s Combined Investigation Team sent another summons to Salman Shahbaz. The first notice of summons was issued to Salman Shahbaz by the FIA’s Combined Investigation on September 19. The son of PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif was summoned to the Lahore FIA office on September 25. The summons also sought answers to repeated questions.
According to the notice, an amount of Rs 10.5 billion was deposited in the employee’s account. The FIA has sought answers to the questions in this regard. In the latest notice, Salman Shahbaz has been directed to appear on October 1 before FIA’s CIT.