31 December 2004 Friday
18 Ziqa'ad 1425
Intelligence wing of NAB abolished
By Zulfiqar Ali
PESHAWAR, Dec 30: The federal government on Thursday wound up the intelligence wing of the National Accountability Bureau across the country, officials said.
NAB regional director Brig Hadeed confirmed the abolition of the intelligence wing. The wing consisted of retired and serving officials of the Inter-Service Intelligence and was functioning in the headquarters and four regional offices in the country.
The wing had been set up to collect data about corrupt practices of those officials and politicians who possess assets disproportionate to their known sources of income.
Official sources said that the retired officers appointed for the intelligence wing on the contract basis were relieved on Thursday. The in-service personnel were directed to resume the duties they performed before they were transferred to the intelligence wing.
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PESHAWAR, Dec 30: The administrator of South Waziristan, Mr Asmatullah Gandapur, was injured in an explosion apparently caused by militants, a government official said on Thursday.
Mr Gandapur was returning to Tank after inspecting the under-construction Gomal Zam Dam project when his jeep was blown up at around 5:10pm near the Dabara refugee camp by what the police said a remote-controlled bomb.
Mr Gandapur suffered minor bruises, but his driver Mirzali was seriously wounded. Mr Gandapur was treated at the Mission Hospital in Tank, said an official, adding "his condition is stable."
Mirzali underwent surgery for his arm injury. A senior government official here said the explosion was aimed to target Mr Gandapur. "It was clearly aimed at hitting him," Brig Mehmood Shah, head of security in the tribal areas, told Dawn. "It looks like the handiwork of militants."
A police official at Tank said they had evidence to prove that the explosion had been triggered through a remote-controlled device. Police were investigating the matter but suspicion immediately fell on the wanted militant Abdullah Mehsud who, in a recent interview, had asked Mujahideen to attack Pakistani security forces.
"So far, we have been on the defensive but now we are going on the offensive. I am urging our Mujahideen to attack Pakistani and American installations," Abdullah Mehsud had said in the interview with Dawn.
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Man quizzed about laser incidents
Law enforcement officers were questioning a Parsippany, New Jersey, man who they say may have pointed a laser beam at an airborne police helicopter Friday night and a Cessna aircraft two nights before, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/31/aircraft.laser/index.html