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NAB committed to rooting out corruption: chairman
ISLAMABAD: Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, said on Friday that NAB was committed to rooting out corruption and recovering looted money from corrupt with iron hands by using all its resources. He said this while visiting the NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) bureau. NAB KP Director General Brig Farooq Nasar Awan said […]
ISLAMABAD: Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, said on Friday that NAB was committed to rooting out corruption and recovering looted money from corrupt with iron hands by using all its resources.
He said this while visiting the NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) bureau.
NAB KP Director General Brig Farooq Nasar Awan said that it was indeed a great pleasure for him and NAB KP to welcome the chairman. “I feel proud to inform you that under your dynamic leadership from 2014 to 2017, NAB KP received 3,775 complaints. They were all disposed off as per law. Out of which, 126 inquiries, 51 investigations and 38 corruption references are in accountability courts. We have recovered Rs 12.4 billion and arrested 102 accused. The overall conviction ratio of NAB KP is about 72 percent. NAB KP is actively perusing the cause of elimination of corruption and corrupt practices through a holistic approach of awareness, prevention and enforcement by adopting zero tolerance policy across the board,” he said.
The NAB chairman said corruption was mother of all evils. “NAB is committed to eradicating corruption by using all its resources. Corruption is one of the major hurdles in the progress and prosperity of the country. It creates injustice, poverty and subside merit, depriving a deserving person of its due right. Corruption affects the country like a cancer. Corruption not only causes delays in the early completion of development projects, but also causes huge losses to the national exchequer. Increase in the number of complaints also reflects enhanced public trusted in the NAB. The PILDAT report for the last year supports the position stated above as 42% people trusted NAB against 30% for police and 29% for government officials. The recent report of Transparency International also rated Pakistan in Corruption Perception Index (CPI) from 175 to 116 which is a great achievement for Pakistan due to NAB’s efforts. The World Economic Forum in its report of 2016 said that Pakistan’s corruption Perception Index has decease from 126 to 122 which is great achievement,” he said.
He said that NAB had perfected its procedures after taking various new initiatives during the tenure of present management of NAB which had started yielding excellent results. “We can say that today NAB has been rejuvenated. The hard work being put in by NAB officers is commendable. The nation is proud of NAB officers who are performing their national duty with absolutely professionally, transparently according to law. During the last three years, NAB seized Rs 50 billion from corrupt and deposited in the national exchequer. This is a record,” he said.
He said that the main purpose of NAB’s Awareness and Prevention campaign was to raise awareness against the ill effects of corruption among the citizen of Pakistan especially youth of Pakistan. He said that NAB, in collaboration with HEC, had established 45,000 character building societies (CBSs) in universities/colleges as youths were considered a vanguard in this fight.
Published in Daily Times, September 16th 2017.
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