NAB arrests another two officials for malpractice

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-IIAbbottabad and Muhammad Jamshed Divisional Forest Officer Alpuri Forest Division District Shangla.
NAB has already arrested 7 members of the timber mafia namelyForest Range Officer Farhad Sajid, four Forest Guards Muhammad Shaukat, Khwaja Muhammad, Ghulam Muhammad, Abdullah Jan, and twotimber smugglers Muhammad Afzal and Munawar Shah.
The timber mafia was involved in cutting of government forestreserves of Agrore Tanawal Forest Division Mansehra, spread over hundreds of acres and contains valuable Kail and Chir species.
According to details, the timber mafia carried out illegalcutting of 2,385 trees voluming 194,000 cft in the last two years which was not reported by the Forest officials concerned.—APP