Accountability, special courts burdened with huge backlog.

ISLAMABAD -- As the country's top corruption watchdog begins probing fake accounts scam referred by the Supreme Court (SC), the bureau is witnessing a record high backlog of corruption cases pending with some two dozen accountability courts. Some 24 accountability courts and around a dozen superior courts were handling over 1,210 references involving more than Rs1,070 billion embezzled by around 11,876 accused, revealed official statistics of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The apex court ordered NAB to wrap up investigations into fake accounts case in two months. Seven accountability courts are dealing with record number of 270 cases in Punjab with four courts each in Lahore and Rawalpindi while one court is handling 60 cases pending in Multan, official figures continued to reveal. Two accountability courts are dealing with around 69 cases in Islamabad...

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