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Thursday, November 26, 2009
By Tariq Butt
ISLAMABAD: The government plans to pass the new accountability law, replacing the present one under which the NAB functions, during the next month.
“According to our expectations, the Holders of Public Offices (Accountability) law is going to be unanimously passed and it will not take much time in parliament,” a source told The News. He said that it had been decided at the highest level that there should be no further delay in having the accountability law in place and the legislation should get parliamentary approval during December.
The source said that although the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Law had already okayed the draft law, the reservations expressed by the PML-N would be duly taken care of.
The source said the PML-N’s demands were not of such a nature that the government could not accept them. “It is only a question of sitting together to hammer out a consensus through discussion and debate,” he said.
He said that there were no huge differences between the stands of the ruling coalition and the PML-N. He said it was wrong to say that the government wanted to make a soft law.The government feels the urgency to enact the law after the emergence of the NAB as a relevant body following the release of the list of the beneficiaries of the NRO.
The new accountability law is changing hands in the government as well as parliament since April. It is stuck up in the House Committee.A PML-N member of the House body said that the PPP was not willing to pay heed to the opposition’s demands to make it effective. He said if the government was serious, it should immediately summon the standing committee to finalise the draft for presentation in the National Assembly for its approval. He said what was most important was that the government should not change what was agreed in the House body. Earlier, the PML-N member said the government had altered the draft, excising the amendments that were unanimously incorporated into it.
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