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  • NLC didn’t get its accounts audited since 2009, PAC told

    ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly was informed on Tuesday that the National Logistics Cell (NLC) had not got its accounts audited since 2009...

    The auditor general’s office told a meeting of the committee that the NLC, an attached department of the Planning and Development Division, had committed serious violation of the Companies Ordinance 1984 by not maintaining audited accounts for four...

  • Disgraced ex-NLC chief challenges his dismissal

    ISLAMABAD: The disgraced former chief of the National Logistic Cell (NLC) challenged in the Lahore High Court on Monday the punishment awarded to him by the military authorities in connection with his involvement in a multi-billion rupee investment scam...

    The petition claimed that NLC had diversified its functions and roles and was additionally authorised to make investments in the stock market...

  • ‘Extraordinarily-long’ adjournment in NLC scam case?

    ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench has adjourned the hearing of the National Logistics Cell (NLC) scam for about five months and will take up the matter again in September this year...

    During a recent hearing of the appeal filed by the defence ministry against the restoration orders of ex-NLC chief, former Maj-Gen Khalid Zahir Akhtar, the counsel for both former Maj-Gen Akhtar and the defence ministry requested...

  • Auditors to get rewards for tracing NLC scam

    ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General of Pakistan, Rana Assad Amin, announced on Monday rewards for auditors for pointing out embezzlement by army generals in the NLC scam...

    Know more: Army sentences two former generals in NLC corruption case The supervisory officers include directors and the director general audit, while the audit team comprise auditors and other staff...

  • Disgraced NLC chief looking to challenge his dismissal

    ISLAMABAD: A two-star general, who formerly headed the military-run National Logistics Cell (NLC) and was sacked from the army in connection with a multi-billion rupee investment scam, is likely to challenge his dismissal...

    He said the former general’s dismissal was not in accordance with the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) and can be challenged at the appropriate forum...

  • NLC and beyond

    The NLC scam, in which allegedly unauthorised investments were made by senior management of the company, including senior retired army officers, in the stock exchange causing a multi-billion rupee loss over a decade ago should have been fully investigated by now — especially because the military leadership publicly, and controversially, pledged to do so citing that army law is applicable to the principal suspects, even though they had long...

  • Army sentences two former generals in NLC corruption case

    RAWALPINDI: Two retired army generals and a civilian officer of the National Logistics Cell (NLC) were sentenced by an army court for violating NLC rules and regulations that caused financial losses to the organisation, a statement issued by military’s media wing said Wednesday...

    In light of findings of the inquiry committee, formed to probe irregularities with regards to the investment made by NLC, two accused retired generals — Maj...

  • NLC scam: two ex-generals punished

    ISLAMABAD: A two-star general (major general), who formerly headed the military-run National Logistics Cell (NLC), has been fired from army service after being found guilty in a multibillion-rupee investment scam, while a former three-star general (lieutenant general) has been reprimanded for his role in the case...

    A civilian also was found guilty after a five-year investigation by the army into allegations of financial...

  • NAB hesitation fuels SC desire for NLC scam record

    ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench on Monday called for the complete record of the Rs4 billion army-run National Logistic Cell (NLC) scam despite the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) request not to treat ‘the sensitive and confidential’ stuff as a public document...

    A supplementary list of 29 mega scams that NAB submitted, in addition to the 150 scandals furnished earlier, mentioned the NLC case, instituted for unauthorised...

  • First NLC trucks reach Istanbul, Baku under TIR

    LAHORE: The National Logistics Cell (NLC) has revived two international road corridors after it successfully completed the first-ever one-side commercial run by transporting high value products from Pakistan to Turkey and Azerbaijan under the Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR) convention...

    The vehicles had moved from Karachi on Sept 27 and completed the journey of over 5,000 kilometres within 10 days,” said an NLC official...

  • Karachi operation is completely apolitical, stresses Corps Commander Karachi

    KARACHI: Corps Commander Karachi Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar said Saturday that the Karachi operation is completely apolitical, adding that it will continue without any discrimination...

    Speaking at a seminar organised by the National Defence University at a private hotel in Karachi, the corps commander said, "I assure citizens that our struggle against terrorism will continue unabated...

  • COVER: The heart of Karachi: Karachi Raj By Anis Shivani

    IN his debut novel Karachi Raj, erstwhile critic Anis Shivani depicts a year’s worth of Karachi life as viewed from the differing perspectives of an American anthropologist and a couple of individuals living in the low-income district of the Basti...

    Shivani’s first foray into the realm of fiction intrinsically grapples with an immensely complex topic — the stratified social layers of which Karachi life is composed...

  • Karachi notebook: Is a ‘Naya’ Karachi possible?

    THE buzzword these days is Naya (new) Pakistan, the mantra that has arguably helped the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf capture power in the Centre and two provinces, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, while doing respectably in Sindh and Balochistan...

    But for the residents of Karachi, the question on everyone’s minds is: will Naya Pakistan also mean a Naya Karachi?By Naya Karachi one does not mean New Karachi, the neighbourhood on the...

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