ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top court was informed on Monday that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is an independent department and no court should interfere in its proceedings.

This was stated by NAB's prosecutor general KK Agha to a three-judge bench headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk during the hearing of NRO implementation case.

Agha stated this when the bench asked him that as on what grounds former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Adnan Raja were discharged from the reference.

He stated that the NAB was an independent department and it has the authority to discharge reference against anyone.

Responding to the bench's query, Agha stated after going through and examining all the facts, NAB has the right to include or exclude any one from the reference which is its legal right.

Justice Ameer Hani questioned whether NAB has got any special authority to do so, upon which Agha replied in affirmative.

Justice Hani asked Agha that he should brief the court over the trial procedure that the NAB follows.

He stated that once the facts are known by NAB then the investigation would be more fair and impartial.

Later, the court adjourned hearing to March 12.