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Nisar rules out consultation before SC detailed verdict
ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Sunday said consultation on the appointment of Chairman National Accountability Burueau (NAB) could not be held until the issuance of detailed verdict by the Supreme Court on the removal of Justice (Retd.) Deedar Hussain Shah as NAB Chief, Geo News reported.Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Chauhdry Nisar said: “The consultation on the appointment of NAB Chief is only possible in the backdrop of Supreme Court’s detailed ruling (on the removal of Deedar Hussain Shah).”
He said two days had passed and he was still waiting for the letter from President Asif Zardari to be delivered to him. “The letter has reached to the media, newspapers and everywhere else but not to me,” he regretted.
However, he said, after holding a party level consultation he has come to the conclusion that the consultation process must wait the detailed verdict of the Supreme Court that is yet to be issued.
It may be mentioned here that President Asif Zardari had on Friday written letters to the Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and Opposition Leader in NA Ch Nisar as part of the consultative process for the appointment of NAB Chief. The letters were written just one day after the SC sent Deedar Hussain Shah packing.
Chaudhry Nisar wondered as to why the Pakistan People’s Party-led government was in panic after the SC ruling on NAB Chief. “What was the need for the Government to begin, in emergency, the process of consultation for the appointment of NAB Chief before the issuance of detailed ruling of the SC,” he questioned.
He said the panic of PPP made it evidently clear that the government was taking its last breaths. “The Government is taking its last breaths and Asif Zardari has been begging MQM for the past 7 days to provide oxygen to the government,” he said.
Nisar came hard on PPP Co-chairman and President Asif Ali Zardari, saying it seems that Asif Zardari has resolved to use all sorts of bullying tactics to force the courts to issue rulings that are in accordance with his desires.
“The man who is calling the shots is responsible for the killings of nine people in Sindh (during the strike called by PPP in the province),” Chaudhry Nisar alleged.
He said President Asif Zardari during the past three years put at stake the law, the whole country and his party (PPP) at stake for only one point agenda – sticking to power.
The Opposition Leader in NA pointed out that, in the past, those who used to read out poems against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in his (Ch Nisar’s) public meetings had now become loyalists of PPP. “The language used in these poems was such that made me feel ashamed,” he added.
Courtesy www.geo.tv