ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau has recruited 104 officers from BS-16 to BS-18 on merit through National Testing Services (NTS) and not a single appointment has been challenged by any candidate at any legal forum.
NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said the bureau has promoted 137 officers on merit and seniority during the tenure of present management. NAB has also established Internal Accountability System within the Bureau to weed out inefficient officers. NAB initiated action against 83 officers. Out of 83 officers, 34 officers were given minor penalties while 23 officers were dismissed from service on the basis of misconduct.
Eradication of corruption is top priority of NAB and the corruption watchdog has adopted Zero Tolerance Policy to wipe out corruption across the board.
To eradicate corruption from the country, he said that NAB during the tenure of the present management, has filed corruption references in respective accountability courts against corrupt persons and recovered Rs45 billion in only two and half years which is a remarkable achievement of NAB.
He said that NAB during the last 16 years has received about 3,38,499 complaints from individuals and private and public organisations which all were processed as per law. During this period, NAB authorized 11,442 complaint verifications, 7528 inquiries, 3810 investigations, filed 2761 corruption references in respective accountability courts and overall conviction ratio is about 76 percent. NAB has recovered Rs287.415 billion from corrupt and deposited in the national exchequer.
He stressed that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with China to ensure that All CPEC projects will be free from corruption.
NAB has expanded its operations by increasing its regional offices from five to eight. Due to continued efforts of NAB, the independent national and international organizations like PILDAT, Transparency International, World Economic Forum and Mishal Pakistan appreciated NAB’s performance which is great achievement of Pakistan due to NAB efforts.
