Govt stalls as NAB remains dysfunctional sans chief

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Despite the lapse of 15 days since the Supreme Court declared the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) dysfunctional on July 21, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led coalition government is still undecided on the fate of the accountability watchdog, with the hunt on for a suitable person as hundreds of inquiries and thousands of applications are pending for action since March 11, when the apex court declared the appointment of Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah to head the bureau illegal.
The NAB had recovered Rs 225.307 billion of embezzled money from various people in the last 10 years, out of which Rs 911 million had been paid to NAB officers and other employees as rewards. Overall, 1,479 cases were pending in the accountability courts, out of which 495 cases were at the inquiry stage, 323 at the investigation stage at NAB, while 679 were under trial in accountability courts.
A source told Pakistan Today that the Law Ministry had forwarded three names to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for appointment as the NAB chief: Justice (r) Sardar Mohammed Raza Khan, Justice (r) Mukhtar Junejo and retired bureaucrat Mehmood Salim Mehmood, but the government had as yet not consulted National Assembly Opposition Leader Nisar Ali Khan to shortlist the new NAB chief. Under the 18th Amendment to the constitution, the president appoints the NAB chairman on the advice of the prime minister, who also has to consult the opposition leader. “The president is not happy with the Law Ministry’s proposed names.
Sardar Raza Khan has a track record of being a very honest and upright judge but he is his own man, which may discredit him. Justice (r) Mukhtar Junejo has also been nominated by the opposition leader in the past which has also become a liability. Now the government is also considering some new names,” added the source. The source said the government was not concerned about the situation because NAB had been seen by the PPP top leadership as an enemy organisation and both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani had been hit hard by NAB officials in the past.
“Moreover, the bone of contention is the documents of the SGS & Cotecna case, presently kept at the NAB Headquarters, which is believed as hard evidence against President Asif Ali Zardari and his accomplices. So activating NAB is not a priority of the PPP government and the rulers would like to keep the accountability organisation dysfunctional till a suitable time,” said the source.

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  1. The SCP patience (advertent or inadvertent or for undesired blind ‘akiedat for Benzir)) allowed MR Zardari-Galani government to humiliate ridicule, disrespect and play politics with its scores of judgments encouraging the government administrative institutions to take liberty of law especially politicians, the criminala,target killers of thousands civilians,bathakhorsof trillion of rupees of MQM,ANP,PPPZ.By dilly dallying in concert with MQM,ANP,ML-Choudries,PPP-Z government is buying time to complete its five years and ruin economy of country,16.5 crore poor, enslave it to drones,IMF,UK,USA to perpetuate it power and amass trillion of ill gotten wealth.I would request SCP to loose no time to punish Zardari-Galani,PPPZ,Babar Awan,Rhman Malik ,MQM,ANP,ML-Choudries in example without any further let up or concession. SCP must also punish the TV anchors, news casters who have become bigger than country of ARY-DR Danish,Badami,,Dunya-Luqman,Geo .Shahazads,Newsoneone-Faisals Querashy,Express,cnbc-Brelvi,Jaffery,Samma,Asma Shirazi,Jasmeen etc whose role has been most injurious to the interests of Pakistan and only conducted themselves most of them as mouthpieces of M,QM,PPPZ or think themselves as Socrates and Vatican Pope and act most obnoxiously with their callers as Faisal Querashy who have made their channel as family show and must be finished for getting stagnated by its owners. They must be punished in example for ever depriving their dreams to perpetuate their power and ill gotten wealth unto their dynasties. Let them have heart. The whole nation is behind them and will destroy those who will stand against their decsions.The Mir Jaffers,Mir Sadiks,those who call India to take back six crore Muhujirs etc must be decimated once for all before it is too late.Let SCP clean Pakistan from the most corrupt government on earth and retrieve the trillions of dollars stashed by them abroad. They will fing=d 16.5 crore people of Pakistan standing behind them like solid rock.
    Dubai

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