Govt. not afraid of NAB, says Pak's Interior Minister

Clarifying Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's statement on National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that the government is neither afraid of, nor annoyed with the organisation and is not planning to clip the body's powers.

Nisar, while addressing a press conference in Islamabad, said that Sharif had only advised the NAB not to threaten businessmen and investors after receiving complaints from the community.

The Interior Minister said that the NAB was created by former dictator General Pervez Musharraf to target PML-N but if the bureau could not bring anything against the party in those years, how they could do it today, the Dawn reported.

He also accused the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led Government of making money from Haj revenues and said that other corruption scandals like 'EOBI, PSO, Abandoned Properties Evacuee Trust, New Islamabad Airport and PIA' all emerged during their regime.

Prime Minister Sharif had on Tuesday said that the NAB was harassing government officers and bureaucrats are afraid of taking decisions because of 'NAB harassment'.

He said that the organization terrifies the government officers and, thus, hinders them from performing their duty.