ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, Justice (retired) Javed Iqbal, chaired a meeting on Thursday to review progress on the implementation status of the decisions and measures taken by the present leadership of NAB at the NAB Headquarters.
Chairing the meeting, Justice Javed Iqbal said that NAB is absolutely determined to eradicate corruption with iron hands in order to make Pakistan corruption free.
NAB’s “Accountability for All” strategy has started yielding excellent dividends, he said while adding that NAB, with improved infrastructure and rationalized workload, has prescribed efficient, effective and expeditious disposal of white collar crime cases putting a maximum limit of 10 months which is a record as compared to other anti-corruption organizations.
Chairman NAB further said that NAB has established state of the art Forensic Science LAB in Islamabad which has facilities of Digital Forensics, Questioned Documents and Fingerprint Analysis.
He said that NAB is considered a role model for entire SAARC countries. Owing to outstanding performance of NAB, Pakistan’s corruption perception Index (CPI) has been decreased from 175 position to 116 and Pakistan is the only country whose corruption perception index is persistently on declining trend, he added.
Justice Javed Iqbal said that Pakistan and China have signed a memorandum of understanding for eradication of corruption. Pakistan and China would jointly work for ensuring transparency in China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. He said that NAB has established its own indigenous and effective Monitoring and Evaluation System (MES) which has salient features of maintenance of data at each stage including complaint entry, complaint verification, inquiry, investigation, prosecution stage and record preservation of Regional Board Meetings and Executive Board Meetings including case brief.
He said that Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System has proved very successful in order to analyze data in qualitative and quantitative form having warnings and alarms system for violators.
Chairman NAB directed the officers to conduct complaint verifications into all the investigations and strictly follow law and rules on merit as NAB is absolutely determined to make Pakistan corruption free.
Published in Daily Times, September 12th 2018.
