ISLAMABAD, March 13: The People's Party Parliamentarians (PPP) MPA, Farzana Raja, has alleged that the military officials have a total control over the courts set up under National Accountability Bureau (NAB). She also condemned the government for not allowing her meeting with her under-trial husband.

Speaking at a press conference along with PPP general secretary Jahangir Badar at the party's central secretariat here on Saturday, Ms Raja said the policemen deputed at the main entrance of an accountability court did not allow her to enter the court where a case against her husband, Pir Mukarram Shah, was being heard.

The MPA said the policemen told her that "they have been directed by the Col Azhar and Maj Tahir not to allow her to enter the courtroom." She said the policemen requested her not to force them as they did not want to lose their jobs. Ms Raja said when she tried to contact the high-ups, she was asked to meet the two army officials "privately."

The MPA said she refused to see them as it was her basic and legal right to meet her husband in the courtroom.

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