ISLAMABAD: Federal Cabinet to amend National Accountability Bureau laws andRules to curtail the powers of the Bureau.
The federal cabinet is likely to approve the amendments during ongoing week.
According to sources, the federal cabinet meeting expected to be heldduring the ongoing week will give approval to the proposed amendments inNAB law. Cabinet members have been found upset and unhappy with the powersof NAB and are afraid of NAB action against them as the bureau has beentaking action against former premier Nawaz Sharif following Panama PaperLeaks and former President Asif Ali Zardari in *Benami* accounts cases.
Ministry of Law & Justice has been finalizing major amendments inconsultation with various ministers. Upcoming cabinet meeting will take thefinal decision regarding the future powers of NAB, sources said.
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Source privy to a cabinet meeting held in the end month of August under thechair Prime Minister Imran Khan also informed Pakistan Today that membersof the federal cabinet were found unhappy with NAB investigation in manycases. These cabinet members, while expressing serious reservations aboutthe bureau, had termed NAB investigations as ‘haphazard and unstructured’.
