{"id":93998,"date":"2020-01-14T07:33:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T07:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/minister-paikar-referred-to-the-ag-over-corruption-charges\/"},"modified":"2020-01-14T07:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T07:33:57","slug":"minister-paikar-referred-to-the-ag-over-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/minister-paikar-referred-to-the-ag-over-corruption-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Paikar referred to the AG over corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"443\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/January\/14\/MULD (1).jpg\" width=\"626\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Salam Watandar has learnt President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani referred interim head for the Ministry of Land and Urban Development to the Attorney General&rsquo;s office over corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p>The charge sheet leveled against Jawad Paikar, interim minister, suggests he has appointed individuals at key posts out of rules and regulation, and bought properties in Turkey in a &lsquo;questionable manner&rsquo;. According to the letter sent to the AG, Paikar&rsquo;s name has been put on the Exit Control List, and investigations launched into the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The letter with signatures of the Assistant Attorney General, Noor Habib Jalal, further suggests that the accused minister has also been referred to the Directorate for Counter Corruption.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, Hashmatullah Nasiri, spokesman for the Ministry of Land and Urban Development, told Salam Watandar that the AG office has reacted in a rush, and the President is likely to issue two fresh decrees to remove some allegations in this charge sheet.<\/p>\n<p>We wished to have the views of the presidency in this connection, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a buzz in the social media over differences between President Ghani and minister Paikar of late.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Salam Watandar has learnt President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani referred interim head for the Ministry of Land and Urban Development to the Attorney General\u2019s office over corruption charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-93998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}