NAB chairman urges IOs not to turn offices into police stations.

SUKKUR -- National AccountabiAlity Bureau (NAB) chairman retAirAed Justice Javed Iqbal has urged investigation officers not to turn their offices into police stations and discourage thana culture in NAB.

He said at a gathering here on Thursday that NAB had done away with the need for use of handcuffs and, therefore, no suspect should and would ever be handcuffed.

He criticised some investigation officers who refused to learn and prove their worth in courts and said that there were some who did not know even the simple basics of an investigation.

He said that it was unacceptable that a seemingly strong case was thrown out by a court only due to technical mistakes committed by an inefficient IO. Such an officer would not be spared and he would have to face the music for his weakness, he warned.

He said that NAB focused on mega corruption cases and it was the bureau's first priority to see such cases through to their logical end. During the last 23 months, at least 600 references about irregularities had been sent to NAB courts, he said.

He said that NAB believed in a policy of across the board accountability of everyone regardless of his or her social standing and said that the bureau did not care about political or other affiliation of a suspect and it zeroed in on corruption only.

He said that he had taken notice of a phone call through which a NAB officer's transfer was...