CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -With its chief headquarters located in Islamabad, it has four regional offices in the four provinces, as well as the four capital territories of Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-2: -With its headquarter at Islamabad, it has four regional offices in the provincial capitals and one at Rawalpindi.

Detailed explanation-3: -NAB is the apex National Anti Corruption Agency. Its ambit includes cases of Cheating Public at Large. Procedure for lanching complaints is simple application address to Chairman or DG with available evidence attached.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aftab Sultan (born 1954) is the chairman of Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau. He succeeded retired NAB chairman Javed Iqbal on 21 July 2022.

Detailed explanation-5: -The current structure of the National Accountability Bureau was set up by Gen Pervez Musharraf who issued the National Accountability Bureau Ordinance to replace the Ehtesab Act of 1997. Musharraf gave immense powers to the NAB including 90 days of custody without producing the detained person in any court of law.