Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Moula Bakhsh Chandio told the National Assembly on Monday that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had recovered Rs 9.52 billion in the last three years (2009 to 2011), while avoiding a question by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) legislator Tasneem Siddique about the names of incumbent federal ministers, state ministers, advisors, special assistants, senators and parliamentarians facing corruption cases in accountability courts, high courts and the Supreme Court.
In a written reply, Chandio said the anti-corruption body had authorised 871 enquiries, while completing 587 enquiries from 2009 to 2011. “Out of the completed enquiries, 278 investigations were authorised and 335 investigations, including the backlog from the previous years, were completed. From the completed investigations, 253 references have been filed in the courts,” he told the House. He added that during the last three years, 164 references had resulted in convictions of the accused persons, while in 125 references the accused had been acquitted. In a separate written reply, the law minister told the House that 25 cases of politicians, 334 cases of government servants, 174 cases of businessmen, and 151 other cases were presently pending with NAB. Separately, Minister for Postal Services Sardar Muhammad Umar Gorgaij told the National Assembly that a summary had been sent to the prime minister for setting up 730 new post offices across the country. Replying to various supplementary questions, he said the cabinet had already approved the new post offices. “Recruitments will be made in a transparent manner soon after the summary’s approval. Currently no one has been recruited to Pakistan Post on regular or contract basis,” he said.
