IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
 
(APPELLATE JURISDICTION) 
 
 
PRESENT: 
 
Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, CJ. 
 
Mr. Justice Ch. Ijaz Ahmed 
 
Mr. Justice Ghulam Rabbani 
 
CPs 1049, 1348 and 1406 of 2009 
And HRC 1827-P & 12388/09 
 
Syed Rahat Mehmood 
 
 
 
 
(in CP 1049/09) 
Muhammad Akhtar  
 
 
 
 
(in CP 1348/09) 
Muhammad Farooq Ansari 
 
 
 
(in CP 1406/09) 
Petitioner (s) 
Versus 
NAB thr. Its Chairman and others 
…Respondent(s) 
 
 
For the petitioner(s): 
Syed Rahat Mehmood in person 
 
 
 
 
(in CP 1049/09) 
 
 
 
 
 
Mr. Amin K. Jan, ASC 
 
 
 
 
With petitioner Muhammad Akhtar 
 
 
 
 
(in CP1348/09) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rai Muhammad Nawaz Kharal, ASC 
 
 
 
 
With petitioner M. Farooq Ansari 
 
 
 
 
(in CP 1406/09) 
 
Respondents: 
 
Mr. Shah Khawar, DAG 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mr. Sultan Mansoor Chaudhry, Acting P.G. NAB 
 
 
 
 
Dr. Asghar Rana, ADPG, NAB 
 
 
 
 
Mr. Naveed Ahsan, Chairman NAB 
 
 
 
 
Col (R)Tarqi Mehmood Bhatti, I/o 
 
For RDA: 
 
 
Mr. Bashir Awan 
 
Date of hearing: 
 
19.02.2010 
 
ORDER 
 
 
After passing order in judgment dated 16th December, 2009 in the 
case of Dr. Mobashir Hassan Vs. Federation of Pakistan (PLD 2010 SC 1) 
appearance of the representatives/prosecutors on behalf of the NAB in 
different cases has become irregular, except in few cases wherein one of 
the Prosecutors is appearing regularly and during the hearing of this case 
we have noticed that despite allowing sufficient time to the NAB no 
progress has been made and Mr. Sultan Mansoor, Acting Prosecutor 
General, who appeared, also could not answer satisfactory as to why the 
 
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matter was not settled so far. Therefore, we have summoned the 
Chairman, NAB in the Court and asked him as to why, in pursuance of 
the Judgment in the case of Dr. Mobashir Hassan (ibid) the Prosecutor 
General and Additional Prosecutor General, have not been removed, so 
the new incumbent may take the charge for effective prosecution of the 
cases and appear before this Court as well as other  Courts. He states that 
he was under the impression that all this was to be done by the Attorney 
General or by the Ministry of Law. It is  pointed out to him that action was 
to be initiated from his office and he would perform his duty in respect of 
action which was required to be taken in the light of the judgment of 17 
Members Bench, referred above. He requests that time be given to him so 
he may start performing his part of obligation from today onward. It may 
be cleared that if no action relevant to his performance is taken by him, the 
coercive measures including attachment of his salary will be taken and 
directions will be made that no one on behalf of the NAB should appear 
unless the compliance of the judgment with regard to the Prosecutor 
General and Additional Prosecutor General is made. However, we give 
him a chance on his assurance that all necessary steps shall be taken in this 
regard. He is directed to appear on the next date of hearing and submit 
progress report in respect of the observations made in the case of            
Dr. Mobashir Hassan(ibid) 
2. 
Despite clear directions no progress has been made in satisfying the 
claims except that according to Mr. Tariq Mehmood Bhatti I/O, NAB he 
has registered claims of about 11000 people from whom amount was 
taken by Syed Rahat Mehmood. In this regard, a report has also been 
submitted by the NAB. 
3.  
 Malik Bashir Awan appeared on behalf of RDA to whom notice 
was given in view of the statement of Syed Rahat Mehmood. He is 
interested to purchase the property owned by accused. Learned counsel 
states that the claim so put forward by the accused is not correct as in the 
Adyala village, where the RDA intends to acquire the land for the purpose 
of building a city, he had only a small portion of land i.e. 2 kanals. In this 
behalf Syed Rahat Mehmood has offered flimsy explanation, which 
exfacie,  is not relevant for the disposal of the claims of the claimants 
because he alongwith other co-accused persons are responsible to satisfy 
their claims. He has however, requested that if two weeks’ time is given to 
 
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him, he would be in a position to come out with a positive result. At his 
request, case is adjourned to 12.3.2010. 
 
Chief Justice 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge  
Islamabad, the 
19 February, 2010 
Nisar/* 
 
