ISLAMABAD: The Executive Board Meeting (RBM) of National Accountability Bureau ( NAB) was held here on Wednesday with Justice Javed Iqbal, chairman NAB in the chair.
According to official handout, the meeting was attended by Deputy Chairman NAB, Prosecutor General Accountability, Director General Operations NAB and other senior officers of NAB.
It is a yearlong policy of NAB to share the details of EBM with the public which does not aim to hurt the feelings of anyone as all inquiries and investigations are initiated on the basis of alleged allegations, which are not final. NAB is a public friendly institution. The bureau only decides to go ahead with case after assessing the
merits of the cases and after knowing flip side of the coin.
The EBM authorised filing three references. Details are as under.
The EBM authorised filing reference against Ehsanullah Mehsud, former senior member Board of Revenue, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the accusations of allegedly allotting 1,976 Kanal State land in Dera Ismael Khan by abuse of power which caused heavy losses to the national exchequer.
The EBM okayed filing another reference against Maqbool Ahmed Lehri, former district Nazim, Dr Kalimullah, former Mayor Metropolitan Corporation, Quetta and others. The suspects has been allegedly involved in doling out 5,292 square feet state land on lease on much cheaper rates illegally by abusing authority thus inflicting Rs 529 million losses to the national exchequer.
The EBM authorised filing a corruption reference against Mir Muhammad Amin Umrani, former Provincial Minister Excise and Taxation, Government of Balochistan and others on the accusations of amassing the assets totally unmatched to their known sources of income – obviously by abusing the authority.
The EBM accorded approval of conducting nine inquiries against various personalities including against Dr Naveed,Director General Agriculture Research,Tariq Mehmood,Administrative officer and others, officers and officials of Ministry of Housing and Works, Pakistan Works Department and others,Mumtaz Khan, former Conservative Forest and others,Nasir Khan, former Member National Assembly (MNA),Shahab Khattak, Secretary C&DW department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and others, Muhammad Naseem, Managing Director,Nasir, Ghafoor, General Manager, Aliur Rehman, Zonal Manager,WSSP and others, officers, officials of Revenue department, Gwadar,Ghulam Hussain Jaffar and others,Chairman Township Housing Scheme district Khuzdar, and inquiry against Amir Muqam, former Advisor to the Prime Minister.
The forum okayed three investigations which includes an inquiry against management of Health Department, Quetta and others,Abdur Razzaq Durrani, former Director General Gwadar Port Authority and Officers and officials others, officers and investigation has been authorised against officials of Revenue Department, Gwadar and others.
The EBM authorised closing inquiries against officers and officials of NHA (National Highway Authority),Captain (Retd) Safdar Awan,former MNA,officers, officials of Pak P.W.D and others, Muhammad Arsila Khan and others,Dr Mujeebur Rehman, former DIG and others, Amanullah Khan Jadoon, former Petroleum Minister and others, closing investigations against officers and officials of Gilyat Development Authority due to absence of proof as per law.
The EBM authorised transferring inquiry against officers and officials and others of Civil Aviation Authority to Director General Civil Aviation Authority for further proceedings. The forum authorised denting three inquiries against the officers and officials of NTDC to NEPRA (National Electric Power Regulatory Authority) for further action as per law.
Justice Javed said eradication of corruption and achieving the target of corruption free Pakistan is the foremost priority of bureau.NAB is pursuing the policy of accountability for all.NAB is national institute of corruption eradication.It has no affiliations with any political party but with Pakistan.A whopping Rs 790 billion has been deposited in national exchequer since inception of the bureau. Whereas Rs 487 billion has been recovered during the tenure of incumbent chairman, which is a record success. NAB is working to take various scams including sugar, flour, Ring Road, Money Laundering, Fake Account, Abuse of Authority, Assets beyond means, Illegal Housing Societies and Moderna scams to logical conclusion.Some 1,269 corruption references are under trial in various accountability courts right now.NAB and Pakistan co exist but NAB and corruption can’t go together.
The detractors of NAB should go through NAB ordinance and evaluate past three years performance of bureau. The accused should better defend their cases instead of assaulting the bureau.
Chairman said NAB was making sincere efforts to recover looted amount from fake housing societies. The performance of bureau has already been appreciated by reputed national and international organisations including Transparency International Pakistan, Mishal Pakistan, PILDAT, which is honour for the NAB.
The bureau has asked media to get version of NAB before publishing or airing news about NAB.It is also legal right of the bureau to get its version before publishing any news related to bureau.
