The parliamentary committee constituted to revisit and suggest amendments in the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) would examine all anti-corruption laws before formulating NAB laws with consensus.
This was stated by Federal Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid while talking to media persons after a meeting of the committee.
The minister, who is also and chairman of the parliamentary committee, said that members of different political parties had given their point of view vis-à-vis amendments in the NAO 1999 and the NAB laws would be framed with consensus.
"The committee would also examine all anti-corruption laws as well as the anti-corruption laws of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa," he added.
A member of the committee and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) vice-chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, said that framing a complete structure is mandatory for amendments in the NAB laws. "NAB laws have completely failed to weed out the menace of corruption from the country and the bureau needs to adopt KP's anti-corruption laws," he opined.
"Formulating new laws won't bear fruits unless political will is there to eradicate corruption," he added.
The parliamentary committee, which has been assigned task of revisiting the NAO 1999 and recommending necessary amendments in it within three months, will now meet on Jan 24.
The committee comprising 13 members of the National Assembly and seven members of the Senate include Lieutenant General (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch, Anusha Rehman, Usman Ibrahim, Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari, Chaudhary Mahmood Bashir Virk, Mohsin Shah Nawaz Ranjha, Syed Naveed Qamar, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, SA Iqbal Qadri, Naeema Kishwar Khan, Sahibzada Tariq Ullah, and Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao (MNAs) and Farhatullah Babar, Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah, Saud Majeed, Javed Abbasi, Azam Khan Swati, Barrister Ali Khan Saif, and Daud Khan Achakzai (Senators).
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