Amendments in NAB laws to enhance efficiency in controlling corruption: Farogh Nasim

Amendments in NAB laws to enhance efficiency in controlling corruption: Farogh Nasim

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Law and Justice, Barrister Farogh Nasim said that amendments in National Accountability Bureau (NAB), laws could enhance efficiency of this national institution dealing with corruption cases.

Talking to a private news channel, he said Opposition and treasury benches could share suggestions for the betterment of NAB working. If Opposition benches wanted to bring improvement in NAB legislation then they should forward the suggestions to the Parliament for discussion. The government, he said after looking into the suggestions given by the parliamentarians could constitute 'a commission' to achieve the objectives. The purpose of the NAB was to bring the looted money back from the corrupt elements. He added that the present government was working to eliminate corruption from the country, he expressed.

To a question, he said that a comprehensive mechanism would be adopted to bring the looted money back and for this, discussion would also be made with other countries to achieve the objectives.
The minister said that a summery of ‘mutual legal system’ would be forwarded to the lower house for necessary action.

To a question, he said that provincial and federal Ombudsmen would enjoy the powers to handle the legal cases so that the matters could be addressed without delay.
Farogh Nasim said that PTI government had been expedited the process to resolve the pending cases in a shortest possible time.

Earlier, he said that legal process was very long and time consuming, due to which, the litigants had to wait for years for resolution of their cases.

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