Murdered NBP employee who irked corrupt also named others as targets
ISLAMABAD: Shabbir Abbasi — an ex-employee of the National Bank of Pakistan
(NBP) and the man behind three major petitions filed in the Supreme Court
against corruption of the top NBP management, who was murdered on Sunday — had
forewarned about life threats to himself and four other people, including The
News correspondent Usman Manzoor.
Shabbir had informed his close associates before his murder that the top NBP
management has planned to kill him along with The News correspondent Usman
Manzoor and Farrukh Ihsan Chaudhry of a local newspaper and one Jamshaid Mir of
NBP. Shabbir was shot in the jurisdiction of Gulshan-e-Ravi Police Station
Lahore on Sunday in cold blood, which has created a serious security threat for
the others named by the deceased days before his death.
The News correspondent Usman Manzoor has been filing stories on corruption and
corrupt practices in different government departments including the NBP. Usman
filed many stories during the past months against corruption in NBP mainly based
on the petitions filed in the Supreme Court and the documents submitted in the
apex court by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
These stories also include the petitions that challenged the appointment of the
former and the present president. A story, based on State bank of Pakistan's
inspection report, was also filed highlighting that NBP issued
exemptions/waivers/deferrals amounting to Rs118.554 billion. Some of these
stories also highlighted how NBP doled out loans worth Rs28.6 billion under
Special Mention category to the high and mighty. Yet another story based on the
petition filed by the deceased Shabbir Hussain Abbasi in the SC about
misappropriation of $53.5 million (Rs4.54 billion) in Core Banking Solution for
NBP was also filed in August this year.
Usman also filed many stories regarding misappropriation of more than Rs2
billion by the top NBP management in the name of `cash achievement awards',
which were obtained by the top brass of NBP itself by manipulating the rules and
throwing into the dustbin the regulations of the State Bank of Pakistan. A
report of FIA submitted in the SC confirming the fraud worth Rs2 billion in the
Workers' Welfare Fund, was also filed by The News correspondent.
Another story on hundreds of officers of the bank approaching the Supreme Court
against the discrimination meted out to them as a parallel service structure is
being run and people working on the same scale and doing the same work on same
posts are being treated differently was also filed a few months ago.
Kashif Anwer, a close associate of deceased Shabbir Hussain Abbasi, has
submitted an application in the Gulshan Ravi Police Station Lahore, received by
the Deputy Superintendent of Police, which says that an ex-employee of NBP was
murdered on Sunday in Lahore by unknown people.
`He was the main petitioner in the following cases against NBP: Rs2 billion
Worker Welfare Fund scam case being heard by the Chief Justice of Pakistan; he
challenged the appointment of the president NBP, the group chief HR and the
petition also highlighted the names of big loan defaulters who again managed to
obtain loans from NBP and the third petition was against Core Banking Solution,
a failed project that cost the bank Rs4.5 billion', the application says.
Kashif Anwer in his application has also mentioned that Shabbir was facing death
threats and had told his lawyer Hashmat Habib Advocate on 29-09-2011 that his
life was in danger. Moreover, Kashif wrote in the application that Shabbir had
told him that there was a grave threat to the lives of The News reporter Usman
Manzoor, one Syed Jahangir of NBP, Furrukh and Ehsan Chaudhry who work for a
local newspaper and of Jamsheed Mir of NBP.
It is worth mentioning here that journalists are facing threats for reporting
corruption and wrongdoings of the government departments and agencies. Recently,
The News correspondent Umar Cheema was abducted and subjected to torture for
exposing the inside stories and incompetence of some organisations.
Brave Geo News reporter Wali Khan Babar was killed mercilessly in Karachi on
January 13, 2011 and federal and provincial governments are still unable to
arrest the his killers. Senior journalist Salim Shehzad was also killed because
of his hard hitting and investigative stories.
Neither the government nor the institution allegedly involved in these incidents
took any concrete step to stop the practice of controlling the media by use of
force or by torturing or killing the journalists.
Tariq Khattak,
Columnist, Feature Writer,
Editor Pakistan Media Group &
Editor Commerce, Pakistan Observer,
Ali Akbar House, G-8 Markaz, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Cells: 0300/0333-9599007, Ph. 051-2852027/8. Fax 2262258
Tariq Khattak, Islamabad, Pakistan.
GSM = 0300-9599007 and 0333-9599007
Email: Tariqgulkhattak@gmail.com
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