http://epaper.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimes/13Feb2012/Enlarge/page8.htm
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Pakistan's Supreme Court will indict PM Yousuf Raza Gilani against a contempt of court charge. Mr Gilani is set to be charged on 13 February with failing to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. If convicted he faces jail and being barred from office. The National Reconciliation Ordinance which is at the eye of the storm grants amnesty to politicians, political workers and bureaucrats who were accused of corruption, embezzlement, money laundering, murder, and terrorism. Pak SC had declared the NRO unconstitutional in 2009. More than 248 politicians bureaucrats have benefited from NRO including prominent names like Asif Ali Zardari, Rehman Malik, Hussain Haqqani & Fazal ur Rehman to name a few. Gilani’s argument that president has immunity as head of state is hollow. President is a citizen and law is equally applicable to him as it is to any other citizen. NRO is a spineless act designed to preserve interests of corrupt politicians. What defies logic is the fact that a law being passed in the assembly to forgive criminals. Indictment of Gilani can be an existential threat to the current government & soon other big names might follow leaving the country once again at the mercy of army.
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