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<b>Petition seeks probe into railway scam</b>

<b>ISLAMABAD: A petitioner on Saturday sought Supreme Court (SC) directions for the NAB to begin fresh investigations against three former railway officials – all of them retired army officials - who allegedly lost the national exchequer Rs 5 billion in a dodgy deal to purchase locomotives from China.</b>

Petitioner Muhammad Siddiqal Farooq, PML-N central leader, <b>accused the officials of receiving kickbacks and commissions on a deal to purchase Chinese locomotives.</b> He sought court directions for NAB to submit previous inquiry reports against former railway minister Lt Gen ® Javed Ashraf Qazi, former chairman Lt Gen ® Saeeduz Zafar and former general manager Maj Gen ® Hamid Butt. Farooq said that the verdict of the PAC - that the accused officials made decisions in good faith - should be declared void. He said that Pakistan Railways should be directed to submit the complete record of its deal with Chinese exporters and the deal between the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Railways Carriage Factor. He asked the court to declare the deal malafide and order recovery of the losses from the accused. shahzad raza

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