Gandapur seeks cooperation of AJK govt to expand NAB's jurisdiction

MIRPUR: Federal minister for Kashmir affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Khan Gandapur on Thursday sought cooperation of Muzaffarabad to expand National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) jurisdiction to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).

Talking to journalists, Ali Amin Khan Gandapur said that AJK Prime Minister Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan should not have opposed the expansion of NAB’s ambit.

The minister said that the federal government allocation Rs2bn for health and education and giving preference to AJK in 50 million housing project. He said that the government was providing Sehat Insaf card s to the families living alongside the restive line of control.

The minister said that AJK was included into billion tree project and added that they wanted to introduce Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-like system in AJK.

Earlier, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal on March 28, had vowed to continue across the board actions to root out corruption from the country, ARY News reported.

Chairing a meeting at the NAB Peshawar office to review so far progress made on the mega graft cases, the chairman NAB had said, “Mega corruption cases will be brought to their logical end.”

Mr Iqbal had said the bureau was striving hard for corruption free Pakistan and to achieve this goal indiscriminate actions were underway countrywide.