ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) claimed to have made recoveries of Rs6.2 trillion amid sweeping digital and fiscal reforms that took central stage in the bureau’s annual report for the year 2025.

The NAB released its annual report in a press briefing chaired by its Deputy Chairman Sohail Nasir.

It was informed that anti-graft watchdog achieved a record-breaking recovery of Rs6.213 trillion, the highest annual figure since the Bureau’s inception in 1999. The recoveries were made in the form of retrieval of encroached state and other organisations’ lands and cash as well. It included reclamation of 2.98 million acres of encroached state and forest land, valued at approximately Rs5.98 trillion.

Leading regional efforts, NAB Sukkur recovered 1.63 million acres (valued at Rs. 3.73 trillion), followed by NAB Balochistan recovering 1.02 million acres, worth Rs1.374 trillion; and NAB Multan recovering 0.33 million acres, worth Rs653.97 billion and 51 canal state land worth Rs29.41bn in federal capital territory.

Rs2.8bn transferred directly to bank accounts of 12,892 affected people

NAB also provided relief to 115,587 housing and investments schemes scams’ affected people through disbursement of Rs180bn among them. In this context, a major contour of accessible and transparent service delivery emerged through digital compensation mechanism.

For the first time in NAB’s history, Rs2.8bn was transferred directly into bank accounts of 12,892 affected people under an agreement with the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), protecting citizens from the hardship of traveling to regional offices.

Further strengthening public trust, another major milestone was achieved through the opening of National Income Daily Accounts (NIDA) to preserve the time value of recovered funds, ensuring that claimants receive maximum financial benefit during disbursement. As a result, the year 2025 witnessed momentous relief in high-profile cases including Al-Bari Group (Rs5.4 billion disbursed among 1,126 affected people); Eden Housing (Rs4.362bn returned to 11,889 victims), plots worth Rs72.23bn delivered to 6750 affected people of State Life Cooperative Housing Society scam, B4U Global (Rs3.157bn disbursed among 17,500 affected people), and AAA Associates (Rs8.869bn disbursed among 1,211 victims).

Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2026