The cabinet committee on Anti-Corruption Establishment Law Reforms constituted by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met here Friday at ACS Conference Room, Civil Secretariat Lahore in the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khawaja.
The committee has been assigned ToRs to remove anomalies and existing shortcomings in the relevant law and rules pertaining to Anti-Corruption Establish-ment (ACE) Punjab along with suggesting remedial measures and best possible legal provisions to make the ACE more effective as far as conviction rate of the culprits is concern.
Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Shamail Ahmad Khawaja constituted a sub-committee comprising Secretary Prosecution Punjab and DG ACE Punjab to prepare detailed briefing on the subject and put it before the next meeting of the cabinet committee within a week. The recommendations will be sent to the Punjab Chief Minister after through scrutiny by the cabinet committee.
The ACS hoped that the new draft law after approval from the provincial cabinet and the House of Punjab Assembly would help eliminate corruption and bribery including white collar crimes in a manner which would definitely commensurate the international benchmarks of good governance in criminal justice and will also help prevent trespassing of NAB into the jurisdiction of ACE Punjab. All that process could culminate into the establishment of a more powerful "Punjab Anti-Corruption Agency" in the near future, he added.
The meeting was attended by Secretary Services Punjab Farhan Aziz Khawaja, Secretary Prosecution Punjab Syed Ali Murtaza, Director General ACE Brigadier Muzaffar Ali Ranjha (Retd), Additional Advocate General Punjab Imtiaz Kaifi, Director ACE Naveed Shahzad Mirza, Deputy Secretary Law Abid Raza, Additional Director Law Muhammad Naeem Khan, Deputy Secretary (Estab) S&GAD Sidrah Yunis and Law Officer ACE Saadia Aziz. The meeting also decided to opt Prosecutor General Punjab as Ex-Officio Member of the cabinet committee.
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