impact and the number of affectees. In a recent consultative session the prioritised areas have been further revamped. It has been decided that NAB being the apex anti-corruption body of the country should restrict itself to inquiry, investigation and prosecution of mega corruption cases, and not dissipate its efforts & energies in small scale corruption cases for which the Provincial Anti-Corruption Establishments and FIA are best suited to pursue. Also top most priority will also be accorded to complaints of corruption against NAB’s own officials. NAB’s personnel need to follow a strict Code of Conduct and zero tolerance against corruption is to be visibly exhibited.
NAB has prosecuted the corrupts and has recovered over Rs4.5 billion of looted public money in 2014. Bringing the total recovery to date to Rs262.008 billion. The allocation from government to NAB for its working since its creation is Rs12.038 billion. This is only 4.5% of recoveries made by NAB. The number of complaints received in 2013 were 19,900 which is double of the number of 10,500 complaints received in 2014 from the previous year. The increase in complaints to NAB is reflective of people’s confidence in our work. To speed up disposal of pending enforcement work, it has been decided to fix time limit for each step of enforcement i.e Complaint Verification, Inquiry & Investigation. A total of 10 months have been laid down from start — to finish. Taking stock of the pendency it was decided in January 2015 that all pending enforcement work shall be completed by 30th June 2015. This undertaking has been voluntarily submitted in the honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan also which has guided us immensely towards improvements in our working. It is in this context that PILDAT in its latest report has rated NAB’s performance at 42% based on public survey. This compares quite favourably to 29% public confidence in police and 26% in government offices working. The rate of success of NAB’s prosecution work in all courts is 70%.