The National Accountability Bureau has been active work since 1999. Highly publicized cases of commercial and public officials involved in corruption have been handled by the dept.
Although a lot of improvement is necessary, most problems occur due to the tremendous political pressures and road blocks, that the NAB Officers face.
The following web-site gives a good account of the popular NAB busts of governments officials:
http://www.nab.gov.pk/index.asp :
Try Case studies on the web-site.
Re: National Accountability Bureau
It's interesting, I know of four people who were under investigation by NAB in the early days of Musharraf.
2 out of the four were politicians. One PML-N one PPP
1 was a bureaucrat and one a person from the legal profession.
All four had terrible reputations and were universally quite proud of how much money they had made by acts of ommission and commission.
By around early 2001 all four had been convicted of corruption.
Sounds good?
Well not quite, do you know what they are all up to now?
One of the politicians was acquitted on appeal (because the government withdrew the charges) and is now a high flier in the PML Q, the second politician is out on bail involved in raking in the money as his brother contested the election in his place (on a PML-Q ticket) and is also a high flier in the PML-Q.
The bureaucrat was released after 6 months and is now living the good life in England, investing on occassion in real estate in Pakistan. While the man from the legal profession contested and narrowly lost the elections to the senate. He holds a senior post in guess which party? yup the PML-Q.
Re: National Accountability Bureau
Makes sense.
Bodies like the NAB can only take things so far.. its the judicial system that falters eventually, once again, due to political pressure from our politicians.