LAHORE: Interior Minister Chaudhry Ahsan Iqbal said on Saturday that Pakistan was being destabilised internally as part of international conspiracy to prevent the atomic power from becoming an economic power as well.
Addressing a press conference, the interior minister alleged that some institutions wanted to usurp the powers and authority of Parliament. He said that as per reports, there was an office from where NAB was being pressurised to reopen Hudaibiya case.
“It is hoped the Supreme Court will take notice of the reports for the sake of fair trial which constitution of Pakistan grantees to everyone,” he said.
“The media reports are very crucial. Hopefully, the chief justice of Pakistan will take notice of the reports,” he said.
The minister said that calling of NAB officers by an influential person and issuing them instructions was against justice. He said that Nawaz Sharif’s political stature was getting tall with each and every excess being done to him.
Ahsan said that there was no precedent of appointing monitoring judge to oversee cases of an individual in the judicial history of the country. He said that during last four year under Nawaz, Pakistan had made exceptional economic gains and had reached the take of point.
Ahsan Iqbal said they respected the verdicts of the superior judiciary, but they had reservations over them. He said these reservations were not just from the PML-N, but from a large number of legal experts and people of Pakistan.
He said an elected PM had been ousted which had no precedence. “He has not been given the right to appeal. In this connection, Panama case verdict has joined the list of ZA Bhutto, Nusrat Bhutto, Maulvi Tameezuddin and Zafar Ali Shah cases which are still being talked about,” he said. The minister said Parliament was the mother of law and not an orphanage, but it appeared that it was being made worthless.
Published in Daily Times, September 17th 2017.
