NAB following SOPs to stop virus spread.

ISLAMABAD -- Chairman National Accountability Bureau Justice (R) Javed Iqbal chaired a meeting and reviewed devised comprehensive strategy regarding COVID-19.

The meeting was told that the entry of visitors had already been banned at NAB Headquarters and all Regional offices on the direction of Chairman NAB. The meeting decided to ensure the attendance of NAB prosecutors in different NAB cases in Honorable Accountability Courts, Honorable High Courts and Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan during lock down in various cities besides adopting strict precautionary measures of social distancing, frequent hand washing, use of sanitizer, gloves and masks, so that no case of NAB could be dismissed due to non prosecution or non appearance of NAB prosecutors.

The meeting decided to observe working hours of NAB offices from 9am to 3pm. It was also decided that the relevant DGs would reduce their staff by fifty percent in their respective offices and staff of over fifty years of age enduring different diseases would only be required in office only on urgent basis, while female staff members were allowed to work from their homes till further orders.

Special checking of staff and others would be ensured at entry gate through thermal guns and attendance of officers/officials would be reduced by fifty percent on rotation basis. The meeting decided to close official transport of NAB besides exempting...