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PPP leaders ready to face cases

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Secretary General Jehangir Badr on Saturday said PPP leaders were ready to face cases against them in court as they had done in the past. Commenting on the list of NRO beneficiaries, Badr said around 8,000 people, including President Asif Ali Zardari, had benefited from NRO. He said there was a need to ensure social and economic justice in the country and there should no character assassination. app

MQM vows to face criminal cases in courts

KARACHI: The MQM on Saturday vowed to face all “politically motivated” criminal cases in courts and said the party was not scared of the National Reconciliation Ordinance, because they had not plundered national wealth. “MQM’s leaders and members were implicated in the politically motivated criminal cases after the 1992 military operation,” MQM’s Farooq Sattar and Haider Abbas Rizvi said at a press conference on Saturday. irfan ali

Zardari was imprisoned without proof

ISLAMABAD: Awami National Party (ANP) leader Senator Haji Adeel on Saturday said President Asif Ali Zardari was jailed for a decade without any proof of the charges levelled against him. Haji Adeel said none of the allegations against Zardari had been proven and he had been imprisoned without proof, while certain politicians were released after 10 to 15 days through “deals” with rulers. app

Publication of NRO list welcome sign

ISLAMABAD: PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain on Saturday welcomed the government’s initiative of making the NRO beneficiaries' list public, which he said was a longstanding demand of his party. He said it was now up to the prime minister to conduct some political “load shedding”. He said the list had proven his party leadership's honesty, as none of the members had been named in the list. app

Govt has lost moral ground on NRO

LAHORE: Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Saturday said the government had lost moral ground on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), adding that now only a hollow political government sat at the helm of affairs, a private TV channel reported on Saturday. Talking to the channel, Rashid said things were unfortunately going in the wrong direction for the government. daily times monitor

Judiciary more independent than before

LAHORE: Former Supreme Court judge Wajihuddin Ahmed on Saturday said the judiciary was more independent than it was in the past, saying it would bode well for the country and the democracy. He said the judiciary could examine whether he National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) was against constitutional equality and fundamental rights of the people, adding that proper action must be taken against the culprits. staff report

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