The recent meeting of Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad with President Zardari is said to be intended to save the skin of Sheikh’s nephew, the Nazim of Rawal Town, Rawalpindi who has been found involved in Rs2.34 billion misappropriations in his town funds, says the rival political party.
The strange tone of Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief might be an attempt to get assurance from the high-ups that the case against his nephew would not be pursued, a top leader of PML-N opined.
Sheikh Rasheed has dispelled all these impressions while his nephew Sheikh Rasheed Shafiq has admitted that only a sum of Rs2 million from the public exchequer was spent on the procession of Pervez Musharraf while the rest of the money was spent transparently.
“It has been a habit of Sheikh Rasheed to take shelter under those who are in power”, said Pervaiz Rashid, Advisor to the Chief Minister Punjab adding: “he is giving auditions these days by speaking against Nawaz Sharif to get his job confirmed.”
Pervaiz Rashid told The News that the Punjab Government carried out the audit of local governments and an embezzlement of Rs 2.34 billion was found in the Rawal Town, where the nephew of Sheikh Rasheed was town Nazim.
He said that a sum of Rs 988 million in Rawal Town has been spent in non-transparent expenditures or suspected misappropriation or embezzlement, unauthorised, unjustified or wasted expenses while there was no detail of billions of rupees spent.
“Sheikh Rasheed took shelter under Pervez Musharraf to hide his financial misappropriations and became the self-proclaimed spokesman of the dictator”, said the advisor who also happens to be from the constituency of Sheikh Rasheed.
i suppose the article in express above summarises Sh Rashid’s character very nicely!
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