ISLAMABAD:-January 25: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has released its over four years performance report under the ? leadership of ,chairman Justice (R) Javed Iqbal.
Due to the outstanding performance, NAB is today the Chairman of NAB SAARC Anti-Corruption Forum, Pakistan’s focal body under the UN Convention against Corruption.
World Economic Forum, Global Peace Canada, PILDAT, Mashal Pakistan has appreciated NAB’s efforts whereas as per Gilani & Gallup survey , 59 percent of the people have expressed confidence in NAB.
NAB was established with the mandate to eradicate corruption and recover looted money from corrupt elements and deposit the recovered amount in the national exchequer.
Justice Javed Iqbal, after assuming his responsibilities as Chairman NAB devised a comprehensive and effective three-pronged anti-corruption strategy of ‘awareness, prevention and enforcement’ to weed out corruption which has been identified as the most effective anti-corruption strategy.
The chairman while introducing many new reforms in the institution, expanded the scope of the NAB to all corners of the country.
NAB with headquarters in Islamabad has 7 regional offices which are functioning in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Sukkur, Multan while one sub-office in working in Gilgit-Baltistan.
Credible national and international organizations like World Economic Forum, Golbsl peace Canada and Mashal Pakistan have appreciated efforts of NAB’s and its initiatives to eradicate corruption.
According to the results of a survey conducted by Gallup & Gilani Pakistan, 59 percent Pakistanis have expressed their satisfaction over the NAB performance.
Under the dynamic leadership of honourable Justice Javed Iqbal – the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has become an active institute as it has recovered around Rs 539 billion from corrupt elements directly and indirectly in the last more than four years which is a significant achievement as comparing to previous years.
NAB since it’s inception has received a total of 501,729 complaints since its inception out of which 498,256 had been disposed off.
NAB has authorised 16,307 complaint verifications as per law, out of which investigation of 15,475 complaints has been completed.
NAB has initiated 10,365 inquiries out of which 9,299 have been completed.
NAB has authorised 4,707 investigations out of which 4,377 have been completed.