NAB offers to drop politically-motivated cases

A senior official of the NAB has offered to drop politically-motivated cases against political figures if he was contacted.


Haider Naseem June 18, 2010

A senior official of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has offered to drop politically-motivated cases against political figures if he was contacted.

Politicians were victimised through NAB references in the past but the trend will be changed now to get maximum results, Director-General of NAB Rawalpindi Justice (retired) Rana Zahid Mehmood told The Express Tribune on Friday.

He said corruption references filed against Interior Minister Rehman Malik were politically motivated and lacked evidence.

Justice Mehmood also said that evidence in the Hudabia Papers reference against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif were weak. He added that politically motivated cases would be eliminated if other politicians also approached the NAB.

He said the NAB would not resist if parliament decided to clip its powers. However, he stressed the need for improving the NAB’s performance to achieve goals.

Referring to the mass suicide case in Lahore, Justice Mehmood said that such incidents could be stopped if corruption was dealt with an iron hand in the Pakistani society.

He claimed that the NAB was an independent institution established to eliminate corruption and to transfer illegally accumulated money by the rich to the poor people who were committing suicides because of poverty. He said the NAB would play its due role in purging the society of the menace of corruption.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 19th, 2010.

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