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NAB Deputy Chairman Hussain Asghar to be appointed chairperson of anti-corruption commission

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to appoint National Accountability Bearue (NAB) Deputy Chairman Hussain Asghar as chairperson of the ‘Commission of Inquiry’, special assistant to the premier on accountability Mirza Shehzad Akbar confirmed.

Asghar will be mandated to include his choice of members in the high power commission constituted by Prime Minister Imran Khan to investigate the massive rise in foreign debts in 10 years.

Akbar said that the notification for Asghar will be released by tomorrow (Wednesday). “No mega project or dam was built from foreign loans. The commission will investigate whether the loans were utilised as according to the requirement and need,” he added.

The cabinet member said that the commission which includes officials of IB, FIA, ISI, SECP will present its report within six months time, and it will work under an act of parliament.

Asghar, earlier, has also served as a director of anti-corruption establishment Punjab and the Federal Investigation Agency.

In his post-federal budget speech, Prime Minister Imran Khan put the blame for economic woes of the country on former governments of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

The prime minister said the two political parties entered into an alliance and kept bringing a chairperson of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of their own choice.

The Frontier Post

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