A meeting of National Accountability Bureau was held at NAB headquarters under the chairmanship of Justice (r) Javed Iqbal, Chairman NAB. Deputy Chairman NAB, Prosecutor General Accountability, DG Operations were present at the meeting. While DG’s of all regional bureaus attended the meeting via video link.
The meeting reviewed the overall performance of NAB. Speaking on the occasion, Chairman NAB said that the NAB is strictly pursuing the policy of accountability for all. NAB has no affiliations with any political party, group or individual but it has true affiliations with the state of Pakistan. NAB officers were performing the duties of corruption eradication from the country considering it as their national duty.
The meeting decided to file appeals in courts against the decisions of bail after getting certified copies of bail from the respected relevant courts. The meeting reviewed till date the progress in the cases against former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif, Shaukat Aziz, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, former President Asif Al Zardari, former CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Aslam Khan Raisani, Sanaullah Zerhi, Murad Ali Shah, Qaim Ali Shah, Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Saad Rafique, Dr Asim Hussain, Ahsan Iqbal, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Sarwar Khan, Noor ul Haq Qadri, Dr Zafar Mirza, Babar Khan Ghouri ,Manzoor Wasan, Agha Siraj Durrani, Syed Khursheed Shah, Jam Khan Shoro, Sharjeel Inam Memon, Adil Siddique, Waseem Akhtar, Sardar Ashiq Gopang, Barjees Tahir, Ejaz Jakhrani, Rana Sanaullah, Sabtain Khan, Abdul Aleem Khan, Sahibzada Mehmood Zeb, Sher Azam Khan, Engineer Amir Muqam,Captain Safdar, Sardar Mehtab Abbasi, Usman Saifullah, Anwar Saifullah, Asfandyaar Kakar, Asim Kurd, Saadat Anwar, Rehmat Baloch, Hamza Shahbaz, Suleman Shahbaz, Hassan Nawz, Hussain Nawaz, Ahad Cheema, Fawad Hassan Fawad, Amjad Ali Khan, Siddique Memon, Manzoor Kaka, Shahid ul Islam, Uzma Adil, Saeed Ahmed Khan, Tahir Basharat Cheema, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Anwar Majeed, Hussain Lawai, Ghulam Mustafa Phal, Farkhand Iqbal, Imtiaz Inayat Elahi, Kamran Lashari, Ghulam Sarwar Sindhu, Murtaza Malik, Akhtar Nawaz Ganjera, Kamran Shafi, Mudarba/Musharka accused Mufti Ehsan, Ghulam Rasool Ayubi, Bank of Khyber, Malam Jabba, Billion Tree Tsunami, K-Electric, NTS, and others, sugar mills managements in sugar subsidy scam, fake housing/cooperative societies and others.
It may be mentioned here that BRT was in Supreme Court of Pakistan, in which NAB is the not party. NAB will steer the investigation to logical conclusion in light of the verdict of Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The meeting also decided to utilize all available resources in nabbing the proclaimed offenders as per law. Speaking on the occasion Justice Javed said that topmost priority of anti graft watchdog is to eradicate the menace of corruption from society. Motto of NAB is to ensure corruption free Pakistan. The performance of bureau has been lauded by the reputed national and international organisations. Specially the World Economic Forum has recently lauded the awareness and prevention policy of the bureau.
Chairman directed the officials to complete complaint verifications, inquiries and investigations in accordance with the law so that the looted amount could be deposited in the national exchequer.