overseas properties worth millions of dollars.

NAB is already investigating 179 mega corruption cases involving prominent politicians, industrialists, traders and senior bureaucrats. They included former prime minister Nawaz Sharif (cases under investigation), Punjab Chief Minister and PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif (cases under investigation), former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari (a case under trial), former prime ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf (cases under trial), former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain (a case under trial and two others under investigation), former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (a case under investigation), former chief minister of Punjab Chaudhry Pervez Elahi (a case under investigation), former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Amir Haider Khan Hoti (a case under investigation), former chief minister of Balochistan Aslam Raesani (aninquiry under progress), former communications minister Arbab Jahangir and his wife Begum Asma Arbab (a case under investigation), MPA Asif Nakai (a case under investigation), MNA Syed Iftikhar Shah (a case under investigation), former minister Murid Kazim (a case under investigation), former chairmen of National Insurance Corporation Limited Ayaz Khan and Javed Akram (a case under trail) and former chairman of Evacuee Trust Property Asif Hashim (a case under inquiry).

Published in Dawn, April 30th, 2018