NAB arrets 2 NWFP Forest officers

Islamabad—The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested two more senior officials of NWFP Forest Department on charges of large scale illegal cutting of precious trees and causing loss of millions of rupees to the national exchequer. The accused include Divisional Forest Officer Working Plan -II Abbottabad and Muhammad Jamshed Divisional Forest Officer Alpuri Forest Division District Shangla. NAB has already arrested 7 members of the timber mafia namely Forest Range Officer Farhad Sajid, four Forest Guards Muhammad Shaukat, Khwaj Muhammad, Ghulam Muhammad, Abdullah Jan, and two timber smugglers Muhammad Afzal and Munawar Shah.—Agencies