Addressing top provincial officials at a ceremony at the Punjab Civil Secretariat, the NAB chairman said, “Bureaucracy is the backbone of the country and if it doesn’t make decisions, then how can we? The government drafts policies and it is the bureaucracy’s job to implement them.”Justice (r) Iqbal continued, “Last year, mega corruption cases emerged in Punjab. “Bureaucracy should see whether appointments and transfers are being made on the basis of merit and whether they are right or not,” the NAB chairman further said. “NAB regional officers will not be able to arrest any officer on their own and from now no arrested officer will be handcuffed,” he assured the officials. The NAB chairman further said, “It is the bureaucracy’s job to make policies in the interest of the country.

Source: Pakistan Today April 16, 2019 09:56 UTC