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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
News Desk
Karachi
The Pakistan People’s Party is the biggest beneficiary of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) as it was a deal between former President General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf and former PPP Chairperson Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. The NRO aimed at bringing those convicted by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) back to Pakistan and have them installed in the top slots, like that of the prime minister.
This was stated by MQM member and incharge of the party’s information wing, Qasim Ali Raza while talking to a private television channel, according to an MQM Press release.
He heaped scathing criticism on Federal Information Minister Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira and said that the latter had just gurgitated utter venom against MQM chief Altaf Hussain, adding that in reality it was Asif Zardari and his cronies who had benefited most from the ordinance. He said that Zardari and his associates had looted the country’s wealth left, right, and centre while there was no corruption case against Altaf Hussain. All the cases fabricated against Altaf, he said, were of a political nature meant to wreak political vendetta.
It was an irony that all these cases were framed against Altaf Hussain after he left Pakistan and took up residence in the UK, he added.
It was known to all and sundry, he said, that these cases were totally fictitious, aimed at political recriminations.
“I would like to advise Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira not to try and take the people for a ride with such lies and instead focus on the misdeeds of his own party which have already discredited it among the masses”, Raza said.
He said that the MQM had made it clear time and again that all the cases against the party men were criminal cases many of which they were already contesting in the courts and would also face the ones that are opened in the future.
Meanwhile, according to another Muttahida Press release, Saleem Shahzad, member, MQM Rabita Committee, has said that neither has Altaf Hussain ever indulged in any kind of corruption, nor has he procured loans from banks only to have them written off. He said it had always been the stance of the Pakistan People’s Party never to take its coalition partners and other political parties into confidence on vital national issues. He made these remarks in an interview to a private television channel.
He was referring to a statement of the Federal Information Minister Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira published in a section of the Press wherein the latter had contended that Altaf Hussain and other MQM members had reaped maximum benefit from the NRO. Kaira, in his statement had contended that the PPP was under no obligation to consult its coalition partners and other political parties before tabling the NRO.
He said that the 170 million people of Pakistan knew full well that Altaf had not indulged in any corruption nor procured any bank loans only to have them written off. He went on to say that the names of those who had indulged in corruption and details of their black deeds had been exposed.
Alluding to the PPP leaders, he said the people knew full well as to who had looted the nation’s wealth with impunity. He reiterated that all the cases instituted against Altaf Hussain and his followers were criminal cases.
Decrying the attitude of the PPP who, he said never bothered to consult the coalition partners, he said it must not be overlooked that it was Altaf Hussain who had proposed Asif Zardari’s name for the office of President and as such, the MQM was well within its right to expect the PPP to consult the coalition partners of vital issues.
He said the MQM would fight all the “fabricated” criminal cases against the Muttahida in the court of law. He accused the ruling party of having robbed national wealth left, right, and centre, and said that before leveling such a charge, the PPP must get it straight that the people were fully aware of the truth and know full well who the guilty party was.
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