ISLAMABAD, July 6: People's Party Parliamentarians (PPP) leader in the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani has accused the government of violating the Supreme Court verdict by appointing a serving general as chief of National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Talking to reporters at the party's media centre here on Tuesday afternoon, the PPP senator said in the famous Asfandyar Wali case, the Supreme Court had announced that a person eligible to become judge of a higher court could be the NAB chairman.
Mr Rabbani regretted that the government appointed a serving army general as NAB chief without taking the Supreme Court's judgment into consideration. He alleged that NAB was being used against the opposition members forcing them to change their loyalties.
The same institution, he said, had become a tool in the hand of the government to break political parties in the country. The PPP leader termed the NAB Ordinance as the blackest law under which the requirements of natural justice could not be fulfilled.
"We believe that the NAB has become a politician-specific and PPP-specific institution," he added. Mr Rabbani welcomed the statement made by Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain that the accountability process should be run under the judiciary.
He said the PPP would wait and see which amendments the government would introduce in this regard and what steps Chaudhry Shujaat would take in this direction.
The PPP leader also demanded of the government to withdraw "false" cases against Asif Ali Zardari after the statement of the prime minister that Mr Zardari had been wrongly implicated in a "fabricated" drug case when he was himself the interior minister. "After this statement by the country's prime minister, the prosecution has no right to pursue the case," Mr Rabbani added.
