In this file photo, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Javed Iqbal addresses an event in Islamabad. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has deferred further deliberations on a 2019 reference until the federal government comes up with a solution to a legal lacuna about the procedure for removal of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman.
Presided over by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, the SJC had taken up the reference moved by Advocate Chaudhry Mohammad Saeed Zafar against NAB chairman Javed Iqbal whose four-year tenure is going to complete on Oct 8.
The reference was moved before the SJC against the backdrop of a leaked video showing alleged clandestine meetings of the NAB chairman with a suspect facing NAB inquiry, Tayyaba Gull.