Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry on Tuesday said that NAB had established its own forensic science laboratory to eliminate the menace of corruption from society. Enumerating the achievements and initiatives of the present management of NAB, the NAB chairman said a concept of combined investigation team (CIT) had been introduced as investigation officers and prosecution officers were now working as a team to ensure transparency and merit in the conduct of investigations.

He said NAB had shown that struggle against corruption was their top priority. “NAB is using all its resources to come up to the expectations of the nation as we considering eradication of corruption as our national duty,” he said. He said that NAB’s Forensic Science LAB had the facilities of digital forensics, fingerprint forensics and questioned documents. “Establishment of the Forensic Science LAB will help retrieve documents from electronic devices like cell phones, computers, iPads and networks and its preservation to determine authorship of questioned hand writing, identity questioned typescripts and printed documents to detect forgeries in questioned documents to determine interpolation, additions or overwriting and substitution of papers, and to work on questioned fingerprints for comparison and/or identification purposes,” he said. He said that under a proactive approach, NAB had been engaging different government and non-government organisations and civil society in its fight against corruption. He said with the help of properly functioning Forensic Science LAB, investigation Officers (IOs) probing various high-profile corruption cases would be able to conduct complaint verifications, inquiries and investigations transparently and on merit. The chairman said that NAB recognised the centrality of training as a tool of improvement and maintaining the quality of its manpower. He said a standardised syllabus for all investigation officers, refresher and capacity-building courses on accounts, general financial rules, digital forensic question documents and finger print analysis had been formulated by NAB to ensure quality and uniformity.