ISLAMABAD - National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and other prosecution agencies are in an awkward position, as in case of revival of cases withdrawn under National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) after its expiry on November 28 or the Supreme Court would undo it ab initio, how they would move against the people sitting in the federal and provincial governments. Background interviews with constitutional experts and men in ruling alliance were of the view that the cases would not going to be revived on November 28 when NRO would lapse after completing of 120 days period for which it was revived by the apex court. According to the constitutional experts, in case of revival of the NRO beneficiaries cases, which is not less than a wild goose chase, how the state would prosecute these cases, as most of the persons who had benefited from NRO were one way or the other part of the government and some of them were sitting members of federal and provincial cabinets. Sources in the National Accountability Bureau, commenting on the current situation, said for NAB and other prosecuting agencies it would be like running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, as it was beyond comprehension that how NAB would move against the sitting ministers and the people part of the ruling alliance in Sindh. The sources said that the government had already crippled the institution by scaling down its budgetary allocation drastically and it was not possible for the NAB to continue with its investigation activities in prevailing circumstances. They said that the funds allocated for the department were hardly meeting its salaries and general day-to-day expenses. The sources said that from the day first the incumbent government had announced to abolish the department by terming it a tool of a dictatorial regime to coerce the political elements. In this atmosphere of fear, how the department could dare move against the sitting Federal Ministers and other influential politicians close to the ruling elite, an official in the department said on condition of anonymity. Despite having a good track record of performance where the department had made the looters and plunderers of national wealth to cough up the embezzled money, the high-ups in the department were reluctant to talk about the maltreatment they were meted out by the government functionaries. The sources said that similarly in Sindh province where thousands of cases relating to corruption and criminal matters were withdrawn under the NRO and most of them were sitting in the government or were close aides of the ruling elite. Similarly, those who were the guards of law of the land were part of the list of NRO beneficiaries and on what moral grounds they would move against those or put their names on Exit Control List who had benefited from the ordinance issued in dubious circumstances by a dictator as part of a clandestine deal to remain in power.