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Bokhari’s nomination according to law: Zardari writes to Nisar
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari, in a letter sent to the opposition leader on Saturday night, made it clear that the name of Admiral Fasih Bokhari had been proposed in accordance with the provisions of the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 the ‘existing law at the point of time’ and that the Leader of the House had also concurred to the proposal.
The President thanked Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for taking part in the consultative process, as mandated by the law, in the nomination of Admiral Fasih Bokhari as the NAB chairman and expressed the hope that the nominee would serve the institution in the best manner.
Presidential Spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the president also pointed out that the opposition leader had offered no comments ‘on the profile and integrity of the nominee, which in fact is the material aspect of the consultation’.
Farhatullah Babar said the president referred to clause (ba) of section 6 of the NAB Ordinance and said that the existing provisions of law had been strictly followed and there was no deviation from the existing legislation in any manner.
Farhatullah Babar said President Zardari rejected the suggestion by the opposition leader that a panel of names be sent to him for consultation saying that the suggestion was devoid of any legal basis.
Instead the president informed the opposition leader that ‘meaningful consultation can be done even on a single person and for that purpose you are taken on board quite candidly’, Farhatullah Babar said. “I have consulted the leader of the house in the National Assembly on the subject who has concurred to the proposal,” the president further said.
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