ISLAMABAD The National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) has lapsed on 28th of November and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and other prosecuting agencies dealing with the cases dropped under the ordinance are in total confusion and dont know what to do. The sources in National Accountability Bureau (NAB) informed TheNation that they had not received any direction from concerned quarters regarding the cases dropped under NRO and for that reason they were unmoved. The source further disclosed that there was general impression in NAB to wait and watch and let the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take some clear-cut decision on the subject. Supreme Court of Pakistan had constituted a larger bench to take up the petitions challenging the NRO by early next week and all depends on the apex court verdict on the petitions filed soon after the promulgation of the ordinance by the then President Gen.(Retd) Pervez Musharraf. The sources in the Pakistan Peoples Party informed that government was in no mood to even ask any of the NRO beneficiary members in the Federal Cabinet to step down and would wait for the apex court decision on the subject. The sources in the NAB informed that they were working under the command of the Prime Minister through Federal Ministry of Law and Justice and they were bound to wait for some clear-cut direction from the government on dealing with the NRO cases after the ordinance has lapsed on 28th of November. These sources further informed that NAB was otherwise incapacitated, by slashing down its budgetary allocation by Rs. 21 crore and at present the investigation and prosecution wings of the departments were almost dead. These sources further informed that even in case of the criminal cases also containing the murder charges government was seemed non-committal and the fate of everything related to NRO was linked to the apex court decision on it. The sources in NAB disclosed that even in case of revival of these cases by the Supreme Court, the things would not be easy for the agencies involved in prosecuting the revived cases as how the officials of NAB and other prosecuting agencies, both at federal and provincial level, would move against the sitting federal and provincial ministers and the members of national and provincial legislatures.