Lahore: Senior journalist and analyst Imran Yaqub Khan has said the recently promulgated National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance is "actually the second name" of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) "to benefit all".

"The Opposition today is getting opportunities to bash the goverment for its tall claims of accountability and doing nothing practically," he said while responding to a question asked by GNN's View Point programme host Samina Pasha that if the NAB Ordinance is not "actually" ordinance rather an NRO.
Khan said earlier the government was making hue and cry that the Opposition was asking for the NRO against corruption of its leaders and now the ordinance promulgated for making important changes contains the same features.
Khan said Prime Minister Imran Khan turned out to be the leading vocalist of making people accountable in Pakistan and later his huge slogans of accountability forced the nation to beleive that his slogans were "mere claims".
Khan criticised the federal cabinet's approach to decide things in good faith and then get those implemented through the civil bureaucracy in the same faith.
"Who will decide the intention-- good or bad-- of the current government as respective regimes in the past kept blaming each other for taking decisions in bad faith," Khan commented.
"Don't they (the government) blame the previous government of taking bribes against raising motorways, metro bus and orange line metro train in Lahore and Multan?" "If you raise metro bus in Peshawar your intention is good," Khan questioned while exposing dual standards of the PTI government.
When asked if there were some lacunas in the ordinance, Khan said the NAB ordinance had certain lacunas and that the Opposition's concerns carried some weight .

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