KARACHI: The Chief Minister of Sindh Murad Ali Shah on Friday has summoned the opposition parties to mull over the bill that calls to repeal the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 Repeal Bill 2017. A delegation of opposition party members led by Khawaja Izharul Hassan is due to meet the CM Sindh later during the day on Friday.
The bill had been earlier passed by the Sindh Assembly.
On July 14, Sindh Governor Mohammad Zubair did not sign the bill and sent it back to Sindh Assembly for reexamination and asking it to be discarded since it was “repugnant to the provisions” of the NAO Ordinance, 1999 and the Constitution.
“We will resist the bill that demands the closure of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in Sindh,” Khawaja Izharul Hassan said in a statement.
The bill was proposed by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) a few days following NAB’s announcement that it was mulling expanding its scope of investigation against alleged corruption and irregularities in different departments of the province, particularly in Karachi.
The NAO Ordinance 1999 Repeal Bill 2017 aims to repeal the applicability of the NAO in departments and autonomous bodies controlled by the Sindh government.
