ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: The Pakistan People’s Party has criticized the National Accountability Bureau for what it said pursuing cases against some and hushing up those against others. In a statement here on Sunday, PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar referred to the press reports that NAB had shelved the case against Tawana Pakistan Project that had been referred to it two years ago.

He said the TPP launched in 2002 involving an expenditure of over Rs3.5 billion had become controversial because of allegations of corruption and foul play.

It was suspended only recently reportedly after mounting public complaints of corruption could no longer be swept under the carpet.

In January 2004, the then secretary of the women and social welfare ministry approached the NAB chairman requesting the Bureau to thoroughly investigate allegations of misuse of funds and fix responsibility. The NAB however has not acted and shelved the case, the reports say.

The spokesman said there were several instances that mocked at the credibility of NAB. One instance came to surface recently in reply to a Senate question that revealed that investigations in cases of misuse of authority and assets beyond known means against some former senior military officers had been shelved as no progress had been made in them for the past three years.