LAHORE, March 2: The National Accountability Bureau is holding a thorough probe into the causes which led to sugar and POL products price hike in the country. “We are trying to dig out where the problem was and how to prevent it in the future,” NAB deputy chairman Maj-Gen Muhammad Siddique said at the concluding session of a seminar at the Lahore University of Management Sciences on Thursday.

“We have held meetings with some ministers and senior government officers. We are going to various government departments during the last two days. We are going into the details of the scams because the increase in POL products’ price specifically affects everyone and every thing,” he said in his concluding remarks at the two-day seminar on ‘youth in governance’.

Regarding good governance in the country, the NAB deputy chairman said progress had been made in many fields and the situation was better as compared to a couple of years ago. But he saw a lot of room for improvement and especially urged the youth to play their role in this regard.

Governance, he said, must be transparent, accountable, participatory. It must follow the rule of the law besides it should be effective and efficient.

Six sessions were held during the two-day seminar organised by the Transparency International Pakistan in collaboration with the NAB, the Higher Education Commission, the LUMS and supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Corporation. It was attended by 200 or so students and teachers of 23 universities of the Punjab.