NAB chief offers PAC to check 20-year record of recoveries
ISLAMABAD
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) have no affiliation with anyone except with Pakistan, Chairman NAB Javed Iqbal said on Thursday.
In a media talk after attending the Public Accounts Committee session, NAB chief said the anti-graft watchdog has nothing to do with the political engineering. Commenting on any amendment in the NAB law, he urged for an amend in the national interest and not in the personal interest of someone.
“He is a former prime minister and respectable for me,” NAB chief Justice Javed Iqbal said on a question about Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. The NAB chief avoided to comment over a query when he was asked about his likely resignation from the office after fall of Imran Khan’s government.
Earlier, in a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was held on Thursday with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Rana Tanvir Hussain in the chair and recoveries of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on its agenda.
NAB chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal attended the meeting and answered the questions sent to the NAB by the PAC. He said that the NAB had ensured the recovery of Rs882 billion so far, adding that Rs25 billion had been distributed to as many as 178,000 calamity-hit people.
He also stated that the NAB had with it 20-year record of all the recoveries which the PAC members could closely scrutinise. “Not even a single penny was embezzled. All the record has been kept safe as a moneylender,” he maintained.
