Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari, in a letter to President Asif Ali Zardari, stated that NAB officers were under pressure from the Supreme Court has they were not being given enough time to investigate cases and to implement the court’s orders.

According to a private television channel, Bokhari’s letter that came to fore over a week after one of NAB’s investigators in the rental power projects case allegedly committed suicide also voiced his reservations over the role of the Supreme Court.

The letter said the NAB did not get sufficient time to implement the apex court’s directives, adding that the NAB Ordinance did not permit the filing of a reference without the bureau chairman’s approval.

It further stated that a section of the media was trying to defame the bureau’s chairman, adding that this section may also have some relation to a stay order over its taxes.

In the letter, Bokhari suggested that the so-called media campaign against him may be an attempt to please the apex court and alleged that it was resulting in pressurising him.