ISLAMABAD: Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif implying an outlandish logic about vote being licence to corruption and that guilty of plunder should secure respite and reprieve though the ballot, lambasted former Federal Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani on Thursday, says a press release.
Durrani said no culprit can become innocent even the whole 200 million people vote for him. “Mr. Nawaz Sharif is not even ready to talk about his assets rather casting aspersions to those who raise such question, instead he challenges others to prove his corruption,” he added. “Any asset without source tantamount to an evidence of corruption as stipulated in UN Convention against corruption adopted in 2003,” he cited while responding to questions of media.
He advised the former PM to study the same for correction of his political doctrine. He said vote makes rulers to be under the law and not over and above it. He said it is being witnessed for the first time in our history that government as well as opposition on both sides of aisle were being subjected to accountability process under the neutral supervision of apex court in contrast to the past, where one ruling elite used the gauntlet to squeeze or switch loyalties of opponents. “Impartiality of the court enabled National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to start functioning independently as required by law and statute instead of swaying to political whims and caprice practiced in past 70 years. Hubristic elements in bureaucracy were instrumental in provision of details and facts regarding grey assets and proofs of corruption due to the same reason,” he said.
He said bail of special assistant to Israeli PM was rejected but the accused did not blamed anyone or claimed to have Zionism put in danger, on the other hand in our country cancellation of bail provides justification to the finance minister to declare that democracy was at the peril.
He was of the view that inclusions of Pakistan’s name in the infamous watch list of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was a consequence of involvement of our rulers in money laundering that makes them vulnerable at the international level to be easily blackmailed.
To a question he said the court was the only forum to be approached for the right or wrong reasons in seeking remedy to any damage done in case of any individual or party or for declaration of misjudgment by judiciary. “Aggrieved ruling junta misusing government machinery and resources to defame institution of judiciary and creating anarchy in the name of campaign for Adl (Justice) instead,” he deplored.