Chairman National Accountability Bureau Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal Thursday called on President Dr Arif Alvi and presented annual report of the bureau for previous year.

Briefing the President about the performance of the NAB, Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal said the anti-graft body, last year, recovered various amounts of over 141 billion rupees. He said 747 inquiries and 269 investigations were carried out during the last year. He said the success rate of NAB in investigating cases remained 69 percent.

Expressing satisfaction over the bureau's performance, President Alvi emphasized on the need to further strengthen NAB to eliminate corruption from the society.