National Accountability Bureau

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The National Accountability Bureau (Template:Langx; abbreviated NAB) is Pakistan's anti-corruption agency. Its chairman is Nazir Ahmed Butt, a retired general.

History

The Ehtesab Act, 1997 established an Ehtesab Cell, charged with the investigation and prosecution of corruption.[1]

Under the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, the NAB was established as the cell's successor, and given the additional responsibility of preventing and raising awareness of corruption.[2] The NAB is also responsible for money-laundering investigations under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010.[3]

Organization

The principal officers of the NAB are its Chairman and Prosecutor General. Its headquarters are in Islamabad. There are regional bureaus under Directors General in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar, Sukkur and Multan.[4] There are four sub-offices (for Gwadar, Hyderabad, Gilgit and Baltistan, and Chamman[5]) under Additional Directors.[4]

The current senior management of NAB is as follows:-[4]

Designation Name of officer
Chairman NAB Lt Gen (R) Nazir Ahmed Butt[6]
Prosecutor General of Accountability Syed Ihtesham Qadir Shah[7]
Deputy Chairman NAB Sohail Nasir[8]
Director General (Operations) Amjad Majeed Aulakh [9][10]
Director General (Rawalpindi) DIG Waqar Ahmed Chauhan[11]
Director General (Lahore) Ahteram Dar [12]
Director General (Karachi) DIG Javed Akbar Riaz [13]
Director General (KPK) Farmanullah[14]
Director General (Balochistan) Nauman Aslam [15]
Director General (Sukkur) Abdul Hafeez Siddiqui (Look-after)[16]
Director General (Multan) Engr. Masood Alam [17]
Director General (Headquarters) Muhammad Imran Butt[18]
Director General (Training & Research) Irfan Naeem Mangi [19]
Director General (Awareness & Prevention) Izhar Ahmed Awan[20]
Director General (Human Resource Management) Naveed Haider [21]

The Federal Public Service Commission is responsible for recruitment of Assistant Directors.[22] Newly recruited Assistant Directors attend a five to seven month 'Investigators Basic Induction Course' and are then posted to the central headquarters of the NAB or its regional bureaus.[23]

The NAB's Forensic Science Lab was inaugurated by Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, then Chairman, on 20 October 2015. It assists investigations by offering expert opinions on forensic matters.[24]

The NAB has also established a Pakistan Anti-Corruption Academy.[25]

For each region or sub-office there is an Accountability Court, which tries offences under the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999.[2] The Accountability Courts are completely independent from NAB, which are headed by District & Sessions Judge or Additional District & Sessions Judge. The judges are posted for three years term on deputation from the provincial judiciary.[2]

Performance

Since its establishment, NAB has recovered Rs. 891 billion out of which Rs. 543 billion has been indirectly recovered in the form of government's or public usurped land.[26]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The conviction rate of NAB is 75%, which is way higher than Federal Investigation Agency, provincial Anti-Corruption Establishments, Police and other investigative agencies in Pakistan.[26]

Criticism

In the Broadsheet case, the NAB has been accused of making payments to the wrong person as settlements and has been held by the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) of 'conspiring' to defraud and financially harm Broadsheet LLC.[27][28] According to an editorial in Dawn, the NAB's actions cost Pakistan's taxpayers $28 million in payments as damages as well as a loss of face.[29]

List of chairmen of NAB

The Chairman, National Accountability Bureau is to be appointed by the Federal Government in case the post becomes vacant after consultation between the Leader of the House and the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly for a fixed three years term which is non-extendable. Below is the list of chairmen.[30]

Name of Chairperson Entered Office Left Office
Syed Muhammad Amjad[31][32] 16-11-1999 25-09-2000
Khalid Maqbool[33][34] 26-09-2000 26-10-2001
Munir Hafiez[35][36] 01-11-2001 31-10-2005
Shahid Aziz[37][38] 11-11-2005 03-07-2007
Nawaid Ahsan [39] 06-07-2007 13-06-2010
Javed Zia Qazi (Acting) [40] 14-06-2010 01-09-2010
Syed Deedar Hussain Shah[41][42] 08-10-2010 10-03-2011
Javed Zia Qazi (Acting) [43] 11-03-2011 09-10-2011
Fasih Bokhari[44] 10-10-2011 25-08-2013
Saeed Ahmed Sargana (Acting) [45] 26-08-2013 07-10-2013
Qamar Zaman Chaudhry[46] 08-10-2013 07-10-2017
Javed Iqbal[47][48] 11-10-2017 03-03-2022
Zahir Shah (acting) [49] 04-06-2022 20-07-2022
Aftab Sultan 21-07-2022 21-02-2023
Zahir Shah (Acting) [50] 25-02-2023 03-03-2023
Nazir Ahmed Butt[6] 4 March 2023 Present

See also

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References

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