ISLAMABAD – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is working on theissue of bringing back the looted money of Pakistan from abroad.

Chairman NAB Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal has revealed that there will be agood news soon with regard to bringing back the looted money from abroad.

“The role of NAB is before all and what I talk about its performance. TheNAB should be allowed to work as there will be no injustice with anyone,”he said in a brief press talk with media persons after attending a meetingof the Senate’s Functional Committee on Human Rights here at the ParliamentHouse in which he gave a briefing on missing persons.

About his meeting with Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, the NAB chairman said theSupreme Court of Pakistan is his own institution and the meeting waspleasant. He said once the reference is filed in the accountability court,NAB’s role ends there.

About the Abbottabad Commission report, the NAB chairman, who was headedthe commission, said that if the publication of the report came under hispurview, then he could do it. Earlier, while briefing the Senate’scommittee chaired by Mustafa Kokhar, Justice Javed Iqbal, who also headedthe Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances, said the total numberof cases was said to be 5,290 since 2011, while the number of casesdisposed of till June 2018 is 3,462.

He said 1,828 cases are still under investigation with the commission. Hesaid the total cases of missing persons from Balochistan were 131 and mostof the cases were related of kidnappings in personal enmities.