In this file photo, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Javed Iqbal addresses an event in Islamabad. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has deferred further deliberations on a 2019 reference until the federal government comes up with a solution to a legal lacuna about the procedure for removal of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman.
Presided over by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, the SJC had taken up the reference moved by Advocate Chaudhry Mohammad Saeed Zafar against NAB chairman Javed Iqbal whose four-year tenure is going to complete on Oct 8.
The reference was moved before the SJC against the backdrop of a leaked video showing alleged clandestine meetings of the NAB chairman with a suspect facing NAB inquiry, Tayyaba Gull.
SJC takes up complaints against Iqbal today
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SJC deliberates over its jurisdiction
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ISLAMABAD: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday said he had the ability to interact with power circles without any outside support.
He was talking to journalists after securing pre-arrest interim bail in connection with an investigation into the ownership of a New York apartment. Asked whether he wanted to give any message to ‘selectors’ through the media, Mr Zardari said: “Why should I convey a message through you.”
When asked if there was any direct interaction of the PPP with them, he said: “We are also citizens of Pakistan and we are living in this country.”
July 7, 2021
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Karachi, has summoned a former judge of the Sindh High Court and renowned lawyer in a case of alleged corruption of millions of rupees in the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Karachi.
On July 1, 2021, a regional board meeting of the NAB Karachi had also approved the reference against the said KMC Employees Cooperative Housing Society Karachi and others.
The official press release of NAB Karachi says, In compliance with the chairman NAB’s initiative of zero tolerance against corruption and focus on mega corruption cases, a regional board meeting, held at the NAB Karachi, has approved the reference against the KMC Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Karachi, accusing office-bearers of the said society, Kaneez Fatima, Sofia Saeed and others, for their alleged involvement in misuse of authority by illegal sale of amenity plots and unlawful conversion of amenity plots int