The life of Asif Ali Zardari is in danger because his health is deteriorating day by day, and the government would be responsible for all consequences if Asif Ali Zardari was assassinated through mental and physical torture, said Dr Babur Awan, a legal advisor to Asif Zardari.
While addressing a press conference at the Multan Press Club along with Habibullah Shakir, Khalid Hanif Lodhi, Khurshid Ahmed Khan, Khawaja Rizwan Alam and Salim-ur-Rehman Mayo on Sunday.
"The apex court should take suo motu action for the release of Asif Ali Zardari on humanitarian grounds for the supremacy of judiciary or his bail petition which has been pending for the last 27 months be decided and discriminatory treatment violating the articles 4,8,9,10, and 25 of the Constitution be stopped forthwith", said Awan.
He said Asif Zardari was arrested on Nov. 5 1996, and he was kept in habeas corpus till April 1997 with institution of any case.
Later, an FIR of Asif Mercury elder brother of Javed Sultan Japanwala was tampered and Asif Mercury was replaced with Zardari to implicate in a crime which he did not commit.
He said that Zardari case was a test case for the judiciary as well as the government. Now it was the case of violation of human rights.
He said that Supreme Court of Pakistan should ensure the release of Asif Zardari on July 6 and the government should withdraw the BMW case forthwith.
Babur Awan warned that the government would have to face severe resistance from the lawyers, political forces, journalists and critics if it introduced Military Trial Courts (MTC) to suppress the political opponents like 1998 when three youths were hanged in Karachi under the orders of MTC, after it the Supreme Court of Pakistan declared them illegal and unconstitutional. He said there was no need of constitution of MTCs in the country.
Commenting on the role of NAB, Babur Awan said: "plea-bargain' was nothing other than blackmailing, and NAB officials were looting the people by misusing their powers to detain any suspect for 90 days, and they became millionaire.
He said the Punjab government had issued 350 detention orders of political opponent since January I to June 30. He demanded for immediate release of Ishrat Abbas Naqvi, Rao Sajid, Malik Assad, and Hashim khan Babur and withdrawal of case against 15 workers and office bearers.
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