Nazim, officials charged with illegal tree cutting
The National Accountability Bureau, NWFP, has filed a reference in the accountability court against 13 people, charging them with inflicting a loss of Rs56.577 million to the exchequer through illegal cutting of trees in the Hazara tribal forest division. According to the NAB, the accused, including four employees of the forest department and a tehsil nazim, had managed to admix a large volume of illegally-cut timber with genuine timber of joint forest management committees (JFMCs).