January 9, 2003	Thursday	Ziqa’ad 5, 1423

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MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 8: AJK Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan has constituted a six-member committee to suggest reforms in the Ehtesab Bureau Act, 2001, to improve the bureau’s working.

The committee, said a notification issued by the services and general administration department on Wednesday, was led by Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Raja Nisar Ahmed Khan. Muslim Conference President Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan and leader of the opposition, Barrister Sultan Mahmood, or their nominees, Ehtesab Bureau’s former chief prosecutor, Chaudhry Mohammad Ibrahim Zia, Advocate-General Raja Abrar Hussain and Law Secretary Raja Niaz Ahmed would be its members. Niaz Ahmed would function as secretary of the committee.

The committee has been directed to submit its report within a month, said the notification.

Sikandar Hayat has been criticizing the working of the bureau and emphasizing the need for introducing amendments in the act to remove anomalies in it.

AJK President Sardar Anwar Khan is stated to be opposed to the move, which he fears aims at bringing the bureau under the government’s administrative control and thus marring its independence and impartiality.