Deputy Chairperson Muhammad Imtiaz Tajwar meeting Sri Lankan counterpart. PHOTO: APP
A senior official of the country’s anti-graft body has met his Sri Lankan and Moroccan counterparts in Austria’s capital Vienna and discussed matters of mutual interest, says a press release here on Thursday.
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Deputy Chairperson Muhammad Imtiaz Tajwar had separate meetings with Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption minister Dayani Mendis and Morocco’s Mohammad Slaoui on the sideline of an international conference on corruption and informed them about the performance of the bureau.
Prosecutor General of the bureau Waqas Qadeer Dar and Additional Director Zahid Shaikh were also part of the Pakistani delegation.
“Corruption in its different forms and manifestations is the mother of all evils”, Tajwar said.
He added that it undermines the rule of law and not only delays the timely completion of development projects but also causes significant losses to the national exchequer.
The bureau has adopted a holistic approach to eliminating corruption through public awareness, prevention and enforcement, he elaborated.
“At the national level, we have in place a robust legislative, administrative and institutional framework to address the evil of corruption in an efficient and comprehensive manner.”
The ‘Whistle Blowing’ law has recently been approved by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and has now been submitted to the parliament for approval.
To raise awareness among the youth about the adverse effects of corruption, he said, NAB in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has established over 20,000 character building societies in universities and colleges, he stated.
He briefed them on NAB’s newly-developed monitoring and evaluation system which deals with the maintenance of data at each stage.
The two ministers appreciated NAB’s work and also shared with Tajwar their own experiences.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 1st, 2016.
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