PM steps in to save civil servants from NAB prosecutions.

ISLAMABAD -- After a meeting with chief secretaries and federal secretaries to listen to their concerns vis-a-vis the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to clip the Bureau's power to arrest any civil servant, serving or retired, in the garb of 'misuse of authority' or for any 'procedural lapse', reported The News.

Sources quoted in the report said the prime minister has directed the law ministry to prepare draft ordinance to amend the NAB law so that the bureaucracy could be saved from NAB's harassment. The prime minister asked the law minister to do the job at the earliest.

In the meeting, the federal secretaries noted that instead of checking corruption to improve governance, the anti-corruption watchdog had become a hindrance against better service delivery and good governance.

Earlier, the bureaucracy had expressed complete no-confidence in the NAB and its working saying, 'The practice...