Vengeful accountability can never be acceptable, says Khuhro

Karachi  

Sindh Senior Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Wednesday clarified that the Pakistan Peoples Party was not against legal checks and accountability, but any such actions should not be driven by political vengeance.

Talking to newsmen on Wednesday after meeting the outgoing Japanese Consul General in Karachi, Khuhro said attempts were being made to tarnish the reputation of politicians on the basis of fabricated allegations. He said mere words could never prove a person to be a criminal or an outlaw, as convictions could never be achieved without solid evidence. 

“The Supreme Court's remarks against the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) are available on record,” he said. “Even the SC said that NAB was involved in corrupt practices. After those comments, every person has become suspicious of the bureau and its intentions.”

The senior minister said there have been two occasions when apologies were tendered to the public in the national political scene. First was when the apex judiciary had apologised for validating four martial law regimes and then cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan apologised for supporting the referendum held during the regime of Pervez Musharraf. “Now the third apology is being offered by Mustafa Kamal. But his apology is tantamount to someone stealing from you, and then apologising for it,” he said.

He said for past two-and-a-half years, attempts were being made to create rifts within the PPP rank and file, but all efforts to disintegrate it could never succeed. Khuhro said he and his associates in the party would remain steadfast against all such conspiracies against the PPP’s unity.

Khuhro condemned the bomb blast in an inter-city bus in Peshawar, earlier in the day saying that such incidents raised questions regarding the performance of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Operation Zarb-e-Azb.

He said the operation Zarb-e-Azb had been launched for a period of two years and with no initial prospect for its extension, no provincial administration should remain under any false impression that the current operation would continue forever.