Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Delayed accountability trials

accountability trials

KARACHI: An accountability court in Karachi indicted former federal minister for petroleum Dr Asim Hussain in 2016 for allegedly curtailing gas supply to the agriculture sector to benefit a particular group associated with the fertilizer industry, inflicting a cumulative loss of Rs462.5 billion to the national exchequer. The National Accountability Ordinance 1999 provides for the … Read more

New National Accountability Ordinance to be brought in 3 months, orders SC

National Accountability Ordinance

The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the government three months to bring a new National Accountability Ordinance (NAO). The government overhauled the accountability law known as the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, last month through a presidential ordinance, bringing momentous alterations in powers of the accountability watchdog. The SC heard a suo motu case concerning the … Read more