Staff Reporter
Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal on Tuesday said that corruption, a serious crime, undermines social, economic norms of societies and affects the countries around the world.
He said that in his message in connection with the Anti-Corruption Day being observed on December 09, to highlight its devastating impact on socio-economic development of the member countries and to create awareness against it.
Javed Iqbal said fighting against corruption is a global concern. Corruption is a social malice that can be seen anywhere and is like a tumor, aggressively spreading in public life. It breeds injustice, which ultimately results in collapse of a nation and society if not cured.
Thus, the significance of this day is increasing over time as the general public is getting more and more mindful of its repercussions.
NAB being the focal agency of Pakistan under United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) is determined to weed out this scourge of corruption and to make Pakistan Corruption free.
However, corruption is a complicated social phenomenon, which cannot be fought by employing a narrow singular approach of enforcement as it would fail to yield any results.
Similarly, it would be impractical to expect a single agency to do the job on its own without complete support of society.
So NAB being the apex anti-corruption agency and mandated to eliminate corruption, corrupt practices, is operating through a three pronged strategy of Awareness, Prevention and Enforcement.
In order to eradicate this evil from society, it has consistently engaged all stakeholders and is incessantly combating this national menace with unflinching resolve through its multi-pronged strategy, which has started yielding remarkable results.
In addition, NAB has played a role of torch bearer for other anti-corruption organizations by putting a maximum limit of 10 months for expeditious disposal of – white-collar crime cases.
