NAB anti-corruption strategy yielding positive results

Bureau has recovered Rs45b in three years which is a major achievement

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’s anti-corruption strategy is yielding positive results in nabbing the corrupt and NAB is geared up to perform its duty by adopting a Zero Tolerance Policy across the board to eradicate corruption from the country.

He said that NAB during the tenure of the present management has filed more than 100 corruption references against corrupt persons in respective accountability courts and recovered Rs45 billion in three years which is a remarkable achievement of NAB.

Chaudhry added that NAB is national apex anti-corruption agency which has been assigned to eradicate corruption from the country. During the tenure of present management, NAB’s regional offices increased from five to eight in order to address peoples’ complaints related to corruption.



In order to overcome shortage of staff, NAB has recruited 104 officers on merit and not a single appointment has been challenged by any candidate at any legal forum which shows merit and transparency ensured by the present management of NAB. Moreover, NAB has promoted 137 officers on merit and seniority during the tenure of present management. NAB has established Internal Accountability System within NAB to weed out inefficient officers.

NAB initiated action against 83 officers. Out of 83 officers, 34 officers were given minor penalties while 23 officers were dismissed from service on the basis of misconduct. NAB is the only agency which has fixed timeline for disposal of cases specially white collar crimes cases in 10 months besides introducing the concept of combine investigation team (CIT) in order to have sold base of inquiry/investigation of the case on the basis of collective wisdom.

These measures taken by the present management of NAB proved very successful in enhancing the performance of NAB officials. Due to continued efforts of NAB, the independent national and international organizations like PILDAT, Transparency International, World Economic Forum and Mishal Pakistan appreciated NAB’s performance which is great achievement of Pakistan due to NAB efforts.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 26^th, 2017.