KARACHI, Feb 22: Former interior minister Naseerullah Babar on Tuesday slammed the National Accountability Bureau for not taking action against the sacked Sindh revenue minister, Imtiaz Shaikh , despite serious allegations of corruption levelled by the province's chief minister.

"It is most condemnable that NAB has allowed itself to be used as political arm of the dictators to pursue their political agenda", he said in a statement. He said Imtiaz Shaikh was a mere grade 18 officer promoted out of turn to grade 20 and posted as secretary to former chief minister Jam Sadiq Ali and who also worked with another chief minister, Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah.

The fingerprints of the sacked revenue minister of Sindh could also be found in the Mehran Bank scandal and in the land scam of Boating Basin in Karachi in the early '90s, he said.