NAB is committed to rooting out corruption

Strategy to bring the corrupt to justice through zero tolerance policy across the board

Having been give the herculean task to probe the alleged corruption of the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sahrif and his family, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry reiterated commitment to across the board action against the corrupt elements.

According to a statement, NAB chairman, while representing Pakistan at an international conference on anti-corruption in Vienna, said the bureau was committed to root out corruption with iron hands.

NAB adopted a comprehensive anti-corruption strategy to nab the corrupt and bring them to justice through zero tolerance policy across the board as eradication of corruption is the top priority of the bureau.

He said that corruption was major hurdle in the progress of Pakistan which deprives deserving persons of their due right. He said that NAB has perfected its procedures after taking various new initiatives during the tenure of present management of NAB which have started yielding excellent results and we can say that today NAB has rejuvenated to eradicate corruption from the country.



He said that the hard work being put in by NAB officers is commendable. He said nation has proud upon NAB officials who are performing their national duty with absolutely professionally, transparently according to law. NAB during the last three years recovered Rs50 billion from corrupt and deposited in the national exchequer which a record achievement as no other anti-corruption agency in Pakistan has recovered such a huge amount in short span of three years.

He said that the figures of complaints, inquiries and investigations are almost double as compared to the same period of 2014 to 2017 which are indicative of the hard work, dedication, professionalism and transparency of all ranks of NAB staff in an atmosphere of renewed energy and dynamism, where fight against corruption is being taken as a national duty. Increase in the number of complaints also reflects enhanced public trusted in the NAB.

He said that the main purpose of NAB’s Awareness and Prevention campaign is to create Awareness against the ill effects of corruption among the citizen of Pakistan especially youth of Pakistan.

He said that NAB in collaboration with HEC established 45, 000 Character Building Societies (CBSs) in universities/colleges as youths are considered a vanguard in this fight. He said NAB has set target for 2017 that the number of Character Building Societies (CBS) should reach at least at 55 thousands due to its importance and excellent feedback received so far.

He said that NAB hosted first meeting of heads of SAARC anti-corruption authorities in which all SAARC countries selected NAB as its first Chairman which is great achievement for Pakistan due to NAB efforts. He said that Pakistan’s Apex Anti Corruption Agency, NAB is the only Organization in the world with whom China has signed MoU in order to streamline cooperation in the field of anti-corruption and oversee projects to be undertaken under CEPC.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23^rd, 2017.