Islamabad - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi yesterday handed over Rs 75.195 million to 240 affectees of housing societies of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

Sardar Muhammad Yousaf, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony was the chief guest on this occasion and handed over the cheques among the affectees and concerned government departments.

Addressing the ceremony, Sardar Muhammad Yousaf appreciated the efforts of NAB, especially NAB Rawalpindi for actively pursuing the corruption cases and making recoveries of the embezzled amounts.

He has highlighted his support for a clean society and efforts made by his ministry to eliminate corruption in executing the responsibility during Haj for the last three years. He said the NAB is making all-out efforts to recover the looted money from the swindlers. He urged the people to invest only in the government approved banking system and investment companies.

Director General NAB Rawalpindi Zahir Shah reiterated that the NAB will continue to pursue the corrupt elements for cleaning the society from the corrupt under the leadership of chairman NAB, so that Pakistan be made corruption-free.

The NAB strongly believes in zero tolerance policy against corruption. NAB’s Anti-corruption campaign is carried widely for awareness and prevention of corruption, besides enforcement across the board.

The NAB hopes that joint efforts of all stakeholders can collaborate to check corruption and corrupt practices before happening with the help of all stakeholders.

The NAB officers/officials under the leadership of chairman NAB are determined and committed to perform their national duty with absolute objectivity, thorough professionalism, and unimpeachable integrity and without any leanings for or against anybody.