HARIPUR, Oct 6: High Court Bar Association general secretary Javed Qureshi has termed the National Reconciliation Ordinance a ‘gratification ordinance’, saying that it will give indemnity to ‘plunderers’.

Talking to journalists here on Saturday, he said the ordinance through which PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto had been absolved of all alleged wrongdoings and money laundering was indicative of the understanding reached between the ‘gang of looters’, who had agreed among themselves to take turns in power.

“The national exchequer is not the property of Gen Musharraf or Benazir Bhutto, but it is the hard-earned money of 160 million people of Pakistan, who have every right to question how the rulers spend it,” he said.

Mr Qureshi said the people who ‘robbed’ the country had no right to fool the people once again in the name of democracy.

He said the rulers were appeasing only specific families in the country.

Mr Qureshi said Ms Bhutto had no magic wand to turn around the miseries of the people into happiness. Instead, she would be required to follow the line dictated to her by Americans and the Pakistani establishment, he said.