NAB officers consider fighting corruption national duty

Qamar Zaman Chaudhry visits Rawalpindi bureau, lauds professionalism of interrogators

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry has said that eradication of corruption is the top priority of the bureau.

NAB officers consider fighting corruption their national duty. NAB Rawalpindi is flagship regional bureau of NAB which always played prominent role in contributing towards the overall performance of the anti-graft body.

He made these remarks while addressing NAB officers during his farewell visit to NAB Rawalpindi.

The NAB Rawalpindi Director General Nasir Iqbal said the bureau perfected its procedures after taking various initiatives under Chaudhry.

Chaudhry said that memories of last four years reminds him of the professionalism, transparency, hard work, honesty, commitment, dedication and merit which NAB officers have been putting in. “Our success as the apex anti-corruption agency inspires us to redouble our efforts in performance of our national duty with more professionalism, dedication and commitment to eliminate corruption from our motherland in all its forms and manifestations.”

NAB, during the past four years, has recovered Rs50 billion from the corrupt and deposited it in the national exchequer.

He said that NAB has the chair of SAARC Anti-Corruption Forum. It was the only organisation in the world China signed an MoU with in order to streamline cooperation in the field of anti-corruption and oversee projects to be undertaken under CEPC.

He said that NAB has established its first Forensic Science Lab (FSL) in Islamabad which has facilities of digital forensics, questioned documents and fingerprint analysis. He said that NAB has rationalised its workload and timelines have been prescribed for efficient, effective and expeditious disposal of cases putting a maximum limit of 10 months — from complaint verification-to-inquiry-to-investigation and finally to a reference in the Accountability Court.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 7^th, 2017.