KARACHI Aug. 18, (TNS): Sindh High Court Chief Justice has formed a larger bench over suspension of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) laws in Sindh.
According to the details, the larger bench chaired by SHC Chief Justice will hear the case of suspension of NAB laws in Sindh from August 22. Justice Munib Akhtar and Justice K. K. Agha are also included in the larger bench.
On the other hand, Sindh’s advocate-general has asked chief secretary not to cooperate with NAB. Sindh’s advocate-general wrote a letter to chief secretary citing that NAB had been suspended in Sindh and directed provincial departments not to cooperate with NAB in new cases.
Sindh’s advocate-general has written a letter to the chief secretary as well as secretary of law that a wrong impression had been created in a section of print and electronic media regarding a Sindh High Court order on August 16.
In the order, the court directed the NAB to proceed with inquiries and investigations pending before it until further instructions, after opposition parties including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim League (F) challenged the legislation made by the provincial assembly to exclude the federally administered NAB from provincial affairs.
The advocate-general said in the letter, “the order has not suspended the National Accountability Ordinance Sindh Repeal Act, 1999.”
