02 May 2004	Sunday	11 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

PESHAWAR, May 1: The Fata chapter of the PML-N has requested the National Accountability Bureau to extend the accountability process to tribal areas as officials of the tribal administration have plundered millions of rupees due to absence of any check on them.

According to a press release issued here on Friday, central information secretary of PML-N Fata Said Wali Shah Afridi has written a letter to NAB chairman Lt-Gen Munir Hafeez, stating that the NAB Ordinance was also applicable to Fata but the bureau had not been taking action against the officials involved in misappropriation of developmental funds.

Mr Afridi stated that since the colonial era there had been no mechanism of audit of the funds meant for tribal areas and due to same reasons there was no check on the officials concerned.