ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal (JUI-F) leader Akram Durrani has said that the NAB Ordinance 2019 was approved in order to save Prime Minister Imran Khan’s friends.
While addressing a news conference in Islamabad today, Akram Durrani said that the judiciary was free and could make decisions independently. According to Durrani, the opposition did not want a clash of state institutions.
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Earlier on Friday, the federal cabinet approved the amendment which stated that the NAB would not take action against the government employees. The property of a public servant cannot be frozen without a court order and if the NAB investigation was not completed within three months, the arrested public servant will be entitled to bail.
The ordinance states that the NAB would only be able to prosecute over 500 million corruption and scams. NAB’s jurisdiction over matters relating to tax, stock exchange, IPOs will be abolished.
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