HYDERABAD: Benazir and Shahbaz to face law, says minister
By Our Correspondent
HYDERABAD, Aug 13: Federal Minister for Law Khalid Ranjha has categorically stated that Ms Benazir Bhutto and Shahbaz Sharif would be arrested as soon as they arrived in the country and the government was not bound to give any special concession to facilitate them to go to the relevant court of law directly from the airport.
He said this while addressing a news conference at the Circuit House on Tuesday.
He said that it never happened that an accused was allowed by the investigating officer or police to seek pre-arrest bail.
He said that the law would take its own course when they returned to the country, and added that normally the accused do not seek pre-arrest bails with the help of the police.
He said that it was, however, upto the court to give any relief to the accused Benazir Bhutto and Sharif family.
He said that a convict was disqualified to contest the polls till his sentence was set aside by the court.
Mr Ranjha disclosed that the prosecution of the Sharif family would be started from where it was left when they signed a deal and opted for Saudi Arabia.
He said that Benazir Bhutto, the Sharif family, and so many other people who had cases pending against them in the court had left the country of their own free will and there was no ban on their return.
He said that the government was going to introduce only those amendments in the Constitution which were inevitable for the continuity of the on-going process, adding that the rest of the amendments that deal with the provincial autonomy, council of common interest, and other issues would be left to the new parliament.
