Ghani terms NAB businessmen committee illegal.

KARACHI -- Sindh Minister for Information and Archives and Labour Saeed Ghani has said that the mandate given to the recently constituted committee comprising members of the business community by Chairman of National Accountability Bureau, was contradictory to the section 33-C of the NAB Ordinance.

Addressing a press conference on Monday, Ghani said that Section 33-C of the National Accountability Bureau's ordinance authorised chairman to form various committees, but this section did not give him the power to award a mandate to a committee to decide on about who to prosecute or who to set free.

The minister said that Section 33-C of NAB was a completely different section according to which any committee formed by Chairman NAB could give recommendations to Chairman NAB in relation to bringing improvements in the rules and regulations of the NAB ordinance, or suggest about means and ways for creating awareness among the general public.

Ghani said that at present it seemed that the if the institution of National Accountability Bureau had been left with a mandate to investigate only those politicians who belong either to the Pakistan People's Party or to other opposition parties, because politicians belonging to the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf were out of the purview of Bureau. He...