Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Three big parties of the country, including the ruling Muslim league-N, have joined hands against the plea bargain policy of the National Accountability Bureau and have requested the national assembly speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to form a parliamentary committee to amend the present law of NAB.

Sources in the ministry of law and justice confirmed to Daily Times that the government was considering moving the bill to end the plea bargain policy of National Accountability Bureau and draft of this bill would be presented in the parliamentary committee. On the other hand, Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf have already submitted private members bills separately in the last year in the national assembly against plea bargain and declared that these policies were promoting corruption instead of helping to end it.

The Law ministry and National Assembly sources said that the motion to form a parliamentary committee for NAB ordinance had been passed unanimously and now the ball was in the speaker’s court regarding when to form the parliamentary committee. An official of the national assembly confirmed that the government party had given names to the speaker for parliamentary committee but opposition names were still not provided because opposition leader Syed Khursheed Shah wanted six members from opposition side while the speaker requested him to give five names.