Sindh government repeals NAB ordinance 1999
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Sindh government passed a law on Monday to repeal the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999.
Terming it a ‘black and draconian law’, Law Minister Ziaul Hasan Lanjar said that all proceedings, inquiries and investigations pending under the repealed ordinance shall be transferred to the Sindh Anti-Corruption Establishment.
All references and legal proceedings filed or pending before accountability courts will be referred to the anti-corruption court and such courts shall proceed with the reference and legal proceedings from the stage at which they were pending, without having to recall any witnesses who were earlier presented before the accountability courts, according to the minister.
The one-day session was summoned for the sole purpose of passing this law and after it was passed, Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani prorogated the proceedings till an unspecified time.
The law was passed following frequent actions and raids by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) ministers and bureaucrats on charges of corruption.
