ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau ()NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry has said that the Bureau is determined to build a corruption-free Pakistan with “zero corruption, 100 percent development” and directed all officers to adopt and demonstrate absolute fairness and transparency in discharge of their national duties.
Chairing a meeting to review progress of NAB at Bureau’s headquarters, Qamar Zaman said that the NAB officers should double their efforts for eradication of corruption by adopting zero tolerance policy across the board.
The NAB chairman said the bureau received 40,000 complaints in Rs22 billion Modarba case. Besides Modarba case, the figures of complaints, inquiries and investigations are almost double as compared to the same period of 2016 to 2017.
He said that it was encouraging for NAB that the Planning Commission of Pakistan for the first time had made anti-corruption part of development agenda in Pakistan in the context of governance and included a chapter to issues of corruption in the 11th five year plan in order to achieve the goals set in the 11th five years plan for eradication of corruption, he said.
He said that Pildat in its report supports the position stated above as 42% people trusted NAB against 30 % for police and 29 % for government officials and the recent report of Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) has improved 9 points.
