New NAB chief.

IT feels as if the post had become nearly synonymous with retired justice Javed Iqbal. So full of controversy was his nearly five-year tenure as chief of the National Accountability Bureau that it seemed he didn't spend a week out of the media limelight. Yet all things must come to an end, and Mr Iqbal's bombastic run as NAB chairman ended last month with barely a whimper. The incumbent government and its self-chosen opposition leader have now appointed in his stead former IB chief Aftab Sultan. Mr Sultan was generally well-regarded and considered a professional bureaucrat before his retirement as a BS-22 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan. However, he mostly served on posts that generally operate away from the public eye - very unlike the post of chairman NAB, which is hyper-exposed to both the media and public scrutiny. He will, therefore, have to strive anew to establish himself as an even-handed, unbiased head of an institution that has earned great notoriety for its repeated failures to act without prejudice. The resurgent PTI, which focuses most of its politics...