PML-N has entered into a deal with Musharraf: Chandio

KARACHI: Sindh Information Adviser Moula Bakhsh Chandio has said that the Supreme Court has exposed the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz over its deal allowing the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to go abroad.

“The remarks given by the judiciary have proven that a new NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) has been signed between the PML-N and Pervez Musharraf,” said the provincial information adviser at a press conference at the media cell of the PPP here on Thursday.

He said the federal government had demonstrated its failure to prevent the departure of Pervez Musharraf, and as such the act on part of the Centre was tantamount to weakening the democratic process in the country.

He said that in a similar way, the leadership of PML-N had lied about the accord signed with and the apology tendered to Pervez Musharraf’s regime when the Sharif family went into exile. In the same manner, the fact about this new NRO would come to the fore as well for all and sundry.

He said the departure of Pervez Musharraf from the country was under a premeditated programme as both the Pakistan People’s Party and the general public knew well that the government of the PML-N would not prevent Pervez Musharraf from going abroad.

The adviser said that the PML-N government had always been vigilant in ensuring supremacy of law, justice and institutions when it comes to the accountability of politicians and government officials. But an underhand deal is reached when it comes to trying a retired general in a case of high-treason under the Article 6 of the Constitution.

Without naming anyone he said the most influential chief justice of the past had even failed to implement the summoning orders issued for Pervez Musharraf to appear before the court proving that certain forces are stronger than Article 6 of the Constitution.

“As a political worker I could say that the process of weakening of powers of Nawaz Sharif would start from now, and soon his authority would be reduced to the extent of becoming a showpiece only,” he said.

He said that the PML-N government was fully answerable to the masses for resolving the cases concerning the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and the Lal Masjid action.

“Our reservations are not being allayed, and the voice of the smaller provinces is not being listened to. But instead concession is being offered to a general who had violated the Constitution and by doing so democracy is being derailed in the country,” the adviser said.