ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court reprimanded National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Chaudhry Qamar Zaman on Wednesday for not investigating major scandals and using the bureau’s resources and energies on petty cases.
Taking notice of what it termed NAB’s ‘poor performance’, the court directed the bureau’s chairman to submit by July 7 a comprehensive report on investigations into 150 big corruption cases.
The court also ordered NAB to submit a separate report within a week on privatisation of the Muslim Commercial Bank.
During the hearing of a case related to suspension of investigation into privatisation of the bank, the court ordered the NAB chief to submit a report with details of 50 major financial scams, 50 land scandals and 50 cases of misuse of authority.
The court told the NAB chief it had been informed that NAB was doing nothing against big fish involved in major scams.
“NAB is afraid of some business tycoons who have plunged the country into crises,” Justice Maqbool Baqar remarked.
