ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) under the leadership of Justice Javed Iqbal released excellent performance report of NAB
The NAB was set up to eradicate corruption and recover looted money from corrupt elements and deposit the looted money in the national treasury.
Justice (R) Javed Iqbal, after assuming his responsibilities as NAB chairman not only introduced an effective, and comprehensive anti-corruption strategy but also introduced various reforms in NAB which have started yielding excellent results.
International organizations such as Transparency International Pakistan (TIP), World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Peace Canada, PILDAT and Mashal Pakistan not only appreciated NAB’s efforts to eradicate corruption, but also Gilani and Gallup polled 59% of the people had shown confidence in NAB.
NAB has received a total of 510,729 complaints since its inception, out of which 498,256 had been disposed off. It has authorised 16,307 complaints verification as per law, out of which investigations of 15,475 complaints has been completed. NAB has initiated 10,365 inquiries, out of which 9,299 have been completed.
Since inception, NAB authorised 4,710 investigations in left. Of which 4,377 have been disposed- off.
Since inception, NAB has recovered Rs 864 billion directly or indirectly from corrupt elements. In last four years and 8 months, NAB has recovered Rs. 584 billion, which is a significant achievement.
NAB filed as many as 3,776 references in various accountability courts. Of which 2508 were disposed – off.
Currently some 1,237 corruption references of Rs 1,335 billion were being heard in various esteemed accountability courts of the country.
The accountability courts convicted 1,405 accused persons from Oct 10, 2017-2021.
Conviction ratio of NAB was 66 percent.NAB was elected as the first Chairman of SAARC Anti-Corruption Forum.
Pakistan is the only country with whom China has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for eradication of corruption for ensuring transparency in the China Pakistan Economic Coordination (CPEC) projects.
NAB introduced a new concept of combine investigation team (CIT) in order to benefit from the experience and collective wisdom of senior supervisory officers, a system of CIT comprising the director, additional director, investigation officer, legal counsel, financial and land revenue experts besides establishing its own state of the art forensic science laboratory in NAB Rawalpindi which has facilities of digital forensics, questioned focuments and fingerprint analysis.
Besides establishing monitoring and evaluation system, NAB has introduced a comprehensive quantified grading system in order to further improve its performance under the leadership of Justice Javed.
A statement issued by NAB director media, Nawazish Asim, collective efforts are needed to eradicate corruption from the country so that the dream of a corruption-free Pakistan for our future generations could be materialised.