KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Wednesday that the National Accountability Bureau should not be used for political engineering.
The PPP chairman was addressing a press conference, where he was accompanied by senior party leaders such as former chief minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah.
Bilawal Bhutto was reacting to the transfer of fake accounts case to Rawalpindi from Karachi. The FIA is investigating 32 people in relation to money laundering from fictitious accounts, including Asif Zardari and Talpur.
“The transfer of the case is a violation of jurisdiction,” said Bilawal Bhutto.
The PPP chairman said that the party leaders are being dragged in the benami accounts case. “Even if an angel is made the chairman of Nab he will do political engineering.”
“The law of NAB is the black law,” said the PPP chairman, adding that the institutions made during former military ruler Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf’s era arrested the Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani from Islamabad.
Bilawal said that the post of Speaker Sindh Assembly does not belong to the PPP. “Attack on the Sindh Assembly is unfortunate.”
He said that without any proof Agha Siraj Durrani was arrested and now the officials are searching for evidence.
The PPP chairman said that no court has sent them a notice, but they have been given a sentence without being heard in the corruption references.
“This doesn’t happen in any democracy and civilised country,” said the PPP chairman.
NAB had arrested Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani last month. He was under investigation in three cases pertaining to illegal appointments, accumulating assets beyond means, and embezzlement of funds, was arrested from a private hotel in Islamabad and taken to the NAB office in Rawalpindi.
