The Pakistan Peoples' Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) on Monday condemned double standards of the regime in selectively pursuing cases against politicians and using the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as its political arm for achieving political agenda. "The party also demands of the NAB bosses to either show spine and stand up against being used as political tool or resign from their jobs," said a spokesperson of the PPP in a statement here.
The spokesman was commenting on reports in a section of the press that the NAB has withdrawn the last reference pending against water and power minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi upon finding 'no evidence against him'.
The statement said that recent press reports also said that nearly 500 cases against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) men including its chief Altaf Hussain, Imran Farooq, Saleem Shahzad and Zulfiqar Haider have been withdrawn and another 136 cases are under consideration for withdrawal.
Cases against Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad have also been withdrawn and a question asked in the Senate on the issue was killed in the chamber, he said.
The spokesperson further said that cases were also withdrawn against some MMA leaders in Balochistan on the eve of their induction into the cabinet in 2002.
Last year, cases were also withdrawn against federal minister Jehangir Tareen, the spokesman recalled.
It is a great pity that uniformed personnel in the NAB have acquiesced into becoming willing tools in the hands of rulers for gaining political ends, he said.
The spokesman said the code of honourable conduct demanded that when the Supreme Court recently made the stinging observation of 'mala fide intent' in the BMW case against Asif Ali Zardari, the NAB bosses should have resigned.
It is a great tragedy when public functionaries wearing glittering medallions in high places succumb to the trappings of power and fail to act in accordance with the code of honourable conduct that is preached by them ad museum, he said.
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