LAHORE– Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Javed Iqbal visited the NAB Lahore Bureau on Thursday to review the updates in all ongoing mega corruption scandals’ investigations.
The Director General (DG) NAB Lahore, along with all Senior Officers of the Regional Bureau participated in the briefing.
A Combined Investigation Team (CIT) accompanied by Legal and Land Revenue Experts which was headed by DG NAB Lahore, briefed Chairman NAB thoroughly over Mir Shakil-ur-Rehman’s Case and also informed him of the updates being emerged after acquiring the Remand of the accused.
At this occasion, Justice Javed Iqbal maintained that NAB strongly believes in freedom of Media, whereas, the Bureau has been discharging its national duties as per law and merit against alleged corrupt elements without taking any kind of pressure, threat or bowing before any propaganda campaign being launched against the Bureau.
He further said that NAB has a firm faith in merit based working while remaining within an ambit of rule of law. NAB is the prime anti-corruption body which believes in taking any initiative against an accused purely on merit and after obtaining solid evidences.
He stated that NAB’s initiatives against corrupt elements are destined to weed-out corruption from motherland which has been appraised by numerous National and International Organizations like Transparency International (TI), World Economic Forum, PILDAT and MISAL Pakistan etc.
Chairman NAB Justice Javed Iqbal, during his visit, issued instructions for bringing all Mega Corruption Scams to their logical end without causing any delay and to file evidence based Corruption References in Accountability Courts.— PRESS RELEASE
