ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party-led ruling alliance has given the final go-ahead for scrapping the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), and, for the purpose, legislation for the establishment of a National Accountability Commission (NAC) would be undertaken next week.
Parliamentarians belonging to the ruling alliance are being asked by their leadership to ensure their presence during the session as federal Law and Justice Minister Farooq H Naek has given his nod to the draft of the bill for bringing about major changes in the accountability laws of the country which had throughout been the centre of controversy among the political leaders. Well-placed parliamentary sources revealed yesterday that the major opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has also sought guidance from its leader Nawaz Sharif to put up resistance in the way of its adoption.
Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has been given a free hand by the PML-N leadership to deal with the situation but it is understood that the opposition would exploit every tactic of filibustering to stall the passage so that it should not become part of the statute book.
MNAs Zahid Hamid and Anusha Rehman Khan advocates, who are playing the sheet-anchor role in the NA standing committee for the Law and Justice Affairs Ministry, have written their dissenting notes to attach to the bill when it is tabled in the House, the sources said.
The opposition has also established contact with the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) to secure Maulana Fazl’s support for opposing the bill so that a unified position is taken in the House pertaining to the bill that the opposition has been terming as legislation for the protection of corruption. Some members belonging to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are also inclined to support the opposition in opposing the bill, the sources added.
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