The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has set up Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Cell at the Bureau's headquarters.

The NAB officials said that the main responsibilities of the cell will include compliance, monitoring, analysis and coordination with national Financial Action Task Force (FATF) secretariat and relevant stakeholders.

He said that Director General Operations Zahir Shah will head the cell and members including Zafar Iqbal, Director Monitoring, Mufti Abdul Haq, Additional Director, Jahanzeb Fareed, banking expert, Sohail Ahmed, banking expert, and Nasir Mehmood Mughal, senior legal consultant Prosecution Division.

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