The Executive Board Meeting of the National Accountability Bureau (EBM-NAB) was held under the chairmanship Justice (r) Javed Iqbal.
Deputy Chairman NAB, Prosecutor General Accountability, Director General, Operations Division, NAB and other senior officers attended the meeting. It is years long prescribed policy of NAB to inform the people about the details of decisions taken in the EBM. NAB does not want to hurt anyone as all inquiries, investigations were initiated on allegations which are not final. NAB only decides to go ahead with after knowing the point of view of the accused.
The EBM has accorded approval of conducting five inquiries against Ahmed Nawaz Chairman, Hameed Akbar Khan, former District Nazim Bhakkar, Amanatullah Khan former member of provincial assembly/ former minister Irrigation department and others, Akhtar Hussain, Maqsood Ahmed, Ahsan Sarwar Butt and others, Messers Millat Tractor, Sikandar Mustafa Khan and others, officers and officials of Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), officers/officials of ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, messers United Energy Group Limited, Habibullah Khan (Qasim International container Terminal, Pvt), inquiries against the officers/officials of NTDC and others.
EBM has also authorised conducting investigations against the officers/ officials of Capital Development Authority (CDA).
The EBM authorised sending the inquiry against Sultan Gull and others to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) as per law and referring another inquiry against the officers/officials of Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad and others to Establishment Division as per law.
The EBM authorised closing investigations against Ayaz Khan Niyazi, former Chairman National Insurance Corporation Limited and others, Mian Imtiaz, former member National Assembly, Chaudhry Muhammad Munir and others, Ghulam Rabbani Khar, former member National Assembly and others, Hina Rabbani Khar, former minister and others due to absence of evidence as per law.
Speaking on the occasion, chairman NAB said that corruption is the root cause of country’s all ills. The need of the hour is to eradicate the menace completely through a surgery and all resources are being utilised.
The bureau has recovered and deposited Rs 71 billion in national exchequer after directly or indirectly recovering from corrupt elements in last 23 months. The performance of NAB has been lauded by reputed national and international organisations especially World Economic Forum’s recent report in which the forum has lauded NAB’s awareness and prevention efforts, which is honour for NAB. The faith is NAB is Corruption Free Pakistan.
He said NAB has filed 105 mega corruption references from out of a total of 179 mega corruption cases. The conviction ratio of NAB is 70 percent. NAB has taken 41 mega corruption cases to logical conclusion, whereas inquiries were continuing in 15 mega corruption cases, and 18 inquiries in mega corruption cases are continuing.
NAB has filed 610 corruption cases in last 23 months. He business community is the backbone of country’s economy in progress and development. President Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries Daro Khan Achakzai had already appreciated bureau’s efforts of resolving business community’s efforts.
NAB has arrested 44 suspects allegedly involved in Mudarba and Musharka scams and was trying to recover the looted money worth billions of rupee from the arrested persons. NAB has arrested 44 suspects allegedly involved in Mudarba and Musharka scams and was trying to recover the looted money worth billions of rupee from the arrested persons. He urged media to analyse the legality , lay out plan and No Objection Certificate (NOC) before publishing/ airing ads of housing societies as illegal societies devour people’s hard earned billions of rupees. He urged regulators including LDA, CDA, RDA, BDA, MDA, ICT and Gwadar Development Authority and others to place lists of housing societies at their websites and inform the people about housing societies. He directed all director generals to conduct complaint verification, inquiries and investigations to logical conclusion as per law and respect the self-esteem of every visiting persons as NAB was a people friendly organisation which is trying utmost to eradicate corruption from the country.
