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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to introduce a new National Accountability Bureau (NAB) amendment ordinance.
The federal government will hold a committee meeting at the Speaker’s residence in Islamabad today. The committee will be comprised of Law Minister Farogh Naseem, Asad Umar, Babar Awan, Pervez Khattak, and Shehzad Akbar.
Sources further said that the law ministry has started working on the new ordinance which will be different from the previous one as many sections are being altered in it.
According to details, the current NAB ordinance will expire tomorrow and the NAB Ordinance could not be extended due to non-convening the session of the National Assembly.
The federal government made drastic changes in the NAB Ordinance, 1999 through a presidential ordinance promulgated in December last year.
Under the ordinance, the NAB powers were curtailed, keeping in view frequent complaints of the bureaucracy and the business community.
Earlier on Friday, the prime minister said that the nation has been elite-centric in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. He also wished a blessed Ramzan to Muslims around the globe.
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