ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The Pakistan People’s Party has criticized the issuance of non-bailable arrest warrants of Senator Asif Ali Zardari in the BMW case as perversion of judicial process to harass and hound political opponents.

The accountability court, Rawalpindi, has issued non bailable arrest warrants of Asif Zardari in the BMW car reference and directed prosecution to arrest him and present him before the court on August 26.

In a statement on Thursday, PPP leader and MNA Raja Pervez Ashraf said Asif Zardari had submitted an application supported by a medical certificate about his health problems and sought exemption from personal appearance in the case. He said the insistence by NAB prosecutors to issue arrest warrants even without observing the legal formality of issuing a notice showed the desperation of NAB and its policy to blackmail and intimidate political opponents.

He said the NAB was acting as political arm of the rulers to re-engineer Pakistan‘s political landscape.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has apprised the chief election commissioner (CEC) of the incidents of victimization of Awam Dost candidates, their supporters and PPP workers and has demanded to take immediate action to ensure free, fair, transparent and impartial elections.

The member of the PPP Monitoring Cell for the local bodies elections and In charge Central Secretariat Kamran Zafar in a letter addressed to the CEC has said, “Police tried to arrest ADP Nazim candidate Dur Mohammad Palari in Jamshoro court and eight persons, including women were injured in fight and resistance. Police tore the clothes of Nazim. Police registered a case under Anti-Terrorism against Malik, Talpur, Shoro and others. Raids were conducted at the house of PPP candidates and their proposers. Many have gone underground.”

CONDOLENCE: A PPP delegation called on the acting Ambassador of Saudi Arabia on Thursday to condole the death of Saudi King Shah Fahad and to deliver a condolence message by the former prime minister Chairperson of the PPP, Benazir Bhutto.