Aftab Sultan appointed NAB chairman

Sources aware of the matter stated approval for Sultan’s appointment was given in in the present day’s federal cupboard assembly.

The allied events had opposed the suggestion to nominate Sultan because the NAB chairman. Nevertheless, the PML-N held consultations and eventually made the choice for his appointment.

Sultan has served because the IB DG twice and has remained related to the police division on senior posts as a grade-22 official.

The coveted submit was mendacity vacant since final month after then-NAB chairman Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal on June 2 relinquished cost of his workplace on expiry of the ordinance by means of which he was given an extension until the appointment of a brand new chairman.

The four-year-and-eight-month-long tenure of Iqbal — who was appointed because the anti-graft physique’s chairman in 2017 — was probably the most controversial eras of the bureau.

Constitutionally, the time period of chairman NAB is 4 years whereas Iqbal accomplished his time period in October 2021, however the PTI promulgated the NAB modification ordinance by means of which he was given an extension until the appointment of a brand new chairman of NAB.

Nevertheless, the PTI authorities didn’t begin the method of session with the opposition chief for the appointment of a brand new chairman.

Now, beneath the Nationwide Accountability (Second Modification) Invoice 2021, which was handed by a joint sitting of Parliament — the NAB chairman, who completes a four-year time period, can’t be appointed to the submit for a second tenure.

The invoice has additionally decreased the four-year time period of the NAB chairman and the bureau’s prosecutor-general to 3 years. The ability to nominate the deputy chairman will relaxation with the federal authorities.