ISLAMABAD - Shrewd incumbent rulers are struggling to legislate a new accountability law to 'curb corruption and corrupt practices whereby none could be held accountable for his/her overseas assets accumulated through unlawful gains. Well-placed parliamentary sources informed TheNation that the draft bill for National Accountability Commission Act, 2010 to prevent holders of public offices from corrupt practices, was in line with rulers self-serving national reconciliation agenda. The sources were of the view that the proposed document has in-built contradictions including the one wherein it calls for ruthless punitive measures within or outside Pakistan, it equally denies the regulating authority any legal framework to seek international cooperation and request for mutual assistance. The proposed bill that has been already nodded by the Parliamentary Committee for Law and Justice would soon be passed by the Parliament with simple majority vote. However, the Opposition Leader in National Assembly and a key PML-N leader Ch Nisar told a press briefing here on Friday that his party would oppose the bill on the flour of the Assembly and would also solicit support of other parties in this connection. We can not remain silent over such an important matter, he said, adding the Parliamentary Committee for Law and Justice had dropped three important recommendations of his party seeking to incorporate them in the proposed document. He said that the Parliamentary Committee that had held more than twenty-five meetings since its inception and had accommodated more than fifty recommendations of the PML-N but dropped three important ones. He substantiated that one of the three dropped recommendations was related to the appointment of the Chairman of the proposed National Accountability Commission (NAC) who shall be a judge of the Supreme Court. Similarly the second recommendation made by the PML-N that had not been accepted by the Parliamentary Committee was related to indemnity from any suit, prosecution or any other proceedings against the Federal Government, Provincial Government, NAC Chairman, Deputy Chairman, member or any other staff of the Commission or any person exercising any power or performing any function under this Act or the rules made there under for any act or thing which been done in good faith or intended to be done under this Act or the Rules thereof. The third recommendation made by the PML-N that was dropped by the Parliamentary Committee was related to international cooperation and request for mutual legal assistance from a foreign state to do any set of actions in accordance with the law of that state. The PML-N, he said, had recommended eight actions in this connection including obtaining and executing search warrants or other lawful instruments authorising search for things relevant to investigation or proceedings in Pakistan believed to be located in that state and to seize them if found.