ISLAMABAD: A list of 248 persons against whom cases were revoked under the National Reconciliation Ordinance was submitted to the Supreme Court here Tuesday by the National Accountability Bureau. NAB Additional Prosecutor General (APG) Abdul Baseer Qureshi submitted the list and assured it was authentic and error-free.

A 17-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is hearing identical writs against the NRO filed by Dr Mobashir Hassan, a former PPP stalwart, and Roedad Khan, a retired bureaucrat.

To a query by the Chief Justice, the NAB official apprised that he had not compared the list with that of the Ministry of Law. He however, he assured with full responsibility that NAB had fulfilled the direction of the court in letter and spirit by submitting an authentic list signed by its chairman.

The APG said the list contained names, nature of cases and alleged monetary gains. He said the list contained NAB cases in which investigation was carried out, inquires were held or appeals had been filed.

To another question he said that only two cases pertaining to Cotecna and SGS were outside the country and their record was not available with NAB for the time being.

The list contained names of politicians as well as former government officials.

The following are the names of those accused of graft:

Muhammad Ahmad Sadiq ex-principal secretary to PM accused of assets beyond means amounting to Rs25.7 million; Javaid Ahmed Qureshi chief secretary co-accused in ZCL’s Lahore fraud cases; Anwar Hussain SDO GEPCO WAPDA Rs 4,000 mln in TW connections; Hussain Haqqani ex-secretary information and broadcasting co-accused in FM channels case; Brig ® Aslam Hyat Qureshi ex-secretary commerce and Javed Talat ex-secretary finance and Salman Farooqi ex secretary Commerce co-accused in ARY Gold case, Saeed Mehdi ex-principal secretary to PM co-accused in polo ground case, Amin Jan deputy GM PTCL accused of corrupt practices/assets Rs 753 mln, Peer Mukarram ul Haq ex-PCP corruption charges Rs 23.195 mln and Rs 1792 mln, Usman Ghani Khatri privatization commission of Pakistan corruption charges Rs 695.25 mln, Brig ® Imtiaz Ahmed and others assets beyond means Rs 233.09 mln and US $1.915 mln, Malik Mushtaq Ahmad Awan ex MPA embezzlement Rs 260 mln, Zakim Khan Mahsood XEN MES issuing cheques to fake companies Rs 251.268 mln, Mrs Nusrat Bhutto ex MNA assets beyond means Rs 1500 mln, Haji Muhammad Nawaz Khokhar ex-MNA/deputy speaker NA accused of corrupt practices and possession of land through illegal means, Asif Ali Zardari ex-MNA accused in SGS, PSI company cases, ARY Gold case, URSUS tractor, Awami tractor scheme, illegal award of contract to Cotechna, assets beyond means and construction of polo ground; Nawab M. Yousaf Talpur ex-MNA co-accused in URSUS tractors case; Anwar Saifullah Khan ex-MNA/federal minister accused of misuse of authority in LPG/appointments Rs 41.76 mln, US$ 4.68 mln, Rs7.64 mln, Rs67.91 mln and US$0.395 mln; Sardar Mansoor Laghari ex-MNA co-accused of corruption in USC, Ali Qaswar Bokhari Additional Director FIA HQ Islamabad accumulation of assets, Agha Siraj Ahmad Durrani ex-minister for education Sindh misuse of authority/purchase of furniture for PSIT Rs319.50 mln, Syed Zahir Shah ex-DG PDA co-accused in Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao case, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao ex-chief minister NWFP allotment of plots/ assets beyond means Rs21.5 mln and Rs170 mln, Ghaniur Rehman ex-NWFP minister Rs 51.53 mln, Haji Gulsher Khan ex-senator misuse of authority/ land acquisition Rs 310 mln; Habibullah Khan Kundi ex NWFP minister misuse of authority/acquisition of land; Mir Baz Muhammad Khetran ex-federal minister accused of misappropriation of govt funds Rs21 million and others.