LAHORE, Aug 15: The chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) accepted on Thursday resignation of provincial deputy prosecutor-general Ahmer Bilal Sufi.

Sources said that Mr Sufi said in the resignation, tendered on Wednesday, that his private practice was suffering owing to engagements with the NAB.

The name of NAB’s special public prosecutor Javed Shaukat Malik has been proposed for the office of the Punjab deputy prosecutor-general and, according to sources, a formal notification to this effect is expected by Saturday.

Mr Malik is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court. At present, he is pleading NAB cases against former commerce minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, PML-N senior vice-president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, former chairman of the Lahore Zila Council Chaudhry Zulfiqar and FIA’s former director-general Muhammad Mushtaq. He is among the earliest lot of prosecutors engaged by the NAB, Punjab, in December 1999.

Sources said that Naveed Rasool Mirza is likely to be appointed the NAB prosecutor-general, the post fell vacant after the resignation of Raja Bashir on Aug 13. Naveed Rasool Mirza had been the NAB deputy prosecutor-general prior to Ahmer Bilal Sufi.