LAHORE: February 12: Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) visited NAB Lahore Regional Bureau to review its performance on the basis of annual inspection conducted by Chairman’s Inspection & Monitoring Team (CI&MT) at NAB Lahore Bureau here Friday.
NAB Chairman’s Inspection & Monitoring Team (CI&MT) was deputed to conduct annual inspection of NAB Lahore Regional Bureau for the year 2015. The annual inspection was carried out from February 10 to February 12, 2015 in order to review and evaluate the performance of NAB Lahore Bureau on the basis of newly introduced Partly Quantified Grading System (PQGS).
The NAB Chairman said NAB is committed to eradicate corruption across the board by adopting Zero Tolerance Policy throughout the country. Corruption is the mother of all evils. Corruption undermines development and rule of law. Corruption not only causes delays in the early completion of development projects but also causes huge losses to national exchequer. Considering these facts National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was established in 1999 as Pakistan’s apex anti-corruption organization. Qamar Zaman Chaudhry, Chairman NAB said that NAB Lahore Regional Bureau is very important Bureaus of NAB. It played prominent role in contributing towards the overall performance of NAB, he said. In 2015, NAB Lahore received 4874 complaints which were process according to the law. NAB Lahore, out of 312 complaints verification (CVs), completed 270 complaint verification. NAB Lahore, out of 341 inquiries, completed 270 whereas out of 211 investigations, NAB Lahore has completed 119 investigations on merit. During 2015, NAB Lahore has arrested 156 corrupts and filed 111 corruption references during 2015. During 2015, NAB Lahore has recovered Rs. 1056.653 million during 2015.-PR
