Limiting the mandate of NAB or barring it from doing its job amounts to resisting what National Action Plan stands for
ISLAMABAD: If we believe the assertion that corruption is directly linked with extremism, limiting the mandate of NAB, or barring it from doing its job, amounts to resisting what the National Action Plan (NAP) stands for: a terror-free Pakistan.
Going by the reports that NAB may be going after higher-ups in Punjab, both from political clans and the bureaucracy, provides the PML-N a common ground with the parties ruling other provinces to clip its wings. The rules of the game following the 18th Constitutional Amendment equally entice them to do away with the vast powers of NAB. But, at the same time, the body is as untouchable as the judiciary. Its independence is as necessary for the uplift of Pakistan as the supremacy of parliament or provincial autonomy.
Riaz Missen
Published in The Express Tribune, February 19th, 2016.
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