Zardari directs Sindh govt to reconsider repealing NAB law

 

After months of controversy, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Friday finally directed the Sindh government to reconsider its decision of repealing the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance 1999 in Sindh. The law was repealed by the Sindh Assembly in the first week of April on the grounds that corruption was a provincial subject and that the anti-graft watchdog had no say in the matter.
Repealing the law, the Sindh government had passed ‘Sindh Accountability Act 2017’ under which ‘Sindh Accountability Agency’ was set up to probe corruption cases in the province. After the law was passed, the opposition parties challenged it in court and announced a campaign against it saying, “PPP is trying to defend its corrupt politicians and bureaucrats that is why it repealed the NAB law in Sindh.”