Pakistan, June 27 -- The government has been criticized for blatant human rights violations by the opposition, which claims the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) lock-ups are akin to torture cells. A member of the National Assembly associated with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has even alleged that NAB uses drugs to extract statements and confessions.
NAB's decision to file a reference of abuse of office against Brigadier (retd) AsadMunir, a former intelligence official and defence analyst, tragically resulted in his suicide. In a letter he left behind, Munir appealed to Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa to bring about concrete changes in the bureau's working. He wrote that "incompetent people are playing with the life and hon...