NAB gave safe exit to Musharraf: Hashmi

Alleges Musharraf created NAB to blackmail politicians to join PML-Q

MULTAN: Senior politician Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has said the National Accountability Bureau is a biased institution as it has allegedly given a safe exit to former president (Gen) Pervez Musharraf without investigating him that how he established bungalows in the US, the UAE and London. 

Addressing a press conference at his residence here on Thursday, he demanded the government made amendments to the NAB laws to convict the guilty people instead of targeting political rivals and blackmailing them for changing loyalties. He said that no society could survive without accountability and the NAB laws needed amendments for free, fair and unbiased accountability. 

Hashmi alleged that Musharraf had created the NAB to blackmail politicians to join the PML-Q.

He claimed that PTI chairman Imran Khan was close to Musharraf. 

Hashmi said that not a single Pakistani doctor gave his expert opinion on Musharraf's treatment abroad. He said that political parties and the government were not responsible for Musharraf’s exit. He said that the government should give a free hand to Musharraf in politics because he would fail. Hashmi said that he was ready to face Musharraf if he contested elections from Islamabad.

He said that he knew the NAB chairman for the last 40 years and he was a noble man. He alleged that the generals defaced constitution and it was not implemented in its true spirit. 

On the other hand, the civilian rulers sacrificed their lives to protect the constitution, he said, adding that PPP founder Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged for giving the constitution.

He said that he was a well wisher of the army. Hashmi said: “Gen Mehmood hands up the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif with his revolver and sought his resignation at gunpoint, but Nawaz refused and resisted.” 

He said that the MQM and the PPP were punished for not taking part in the PTI's Islamabad sit-in.  To a question, Hashmi said that he was not going to join the political party of Mustafa Kamal.