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PML-N to mobilise public opinion against NRO: Shahbaz

* Nawaz Sharif says beneficiaries of ordinance should face courts
* Law will only promote corruption

Staff Report

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has decided to mobilise public opinion against the National Reconciliation Ordinance, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif announced on Saturday.

He said the NRO’s approval by parliament would be an insult to the sacrifices offered by the masses, the media, the civil society and political workers for the restoration of the judiciary. He said the NRO would prove a blow to the relation between law and justice for which our present and future generations would have to pay a heavy price.

Shahbaz said the NRO was devoid of moral, legal and political justifications and had been rejected by the Pakistani people.

He said elements responsible for the passage of the ordinance would be held equally responsible as those who introduced it, adding its success would be the nation’s defeat.

Meanwhile, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif said beneficiaries of the NRO should face the courts and let the public decide their fate instead of trying to seek “immunity” through the ordinance.

He was talking to reporters after offering condolences to former Pakistan cricket captain Waseem Akram on his wife’s tragic death. He regretted the passage of the ordinance by the National Assembly’s standing committee, saying that approving such a law would only promote corruption. He said his party’s stance on the NRO was “very clear”, adding he would chair a meeting of PML-N’s parliamentarians on Tuesday and decide on a strategy.

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