The Pakistan Peoples Party has strongly condemned the re-opening of a dead reference against the former first lady, Begum Nusrat Bhutto, and termed it as the worst kind of persecution by sick minds that are ruling the country today.
On Tuesday an Accountability Court in Lahore directed NAB to supply list of properties allegedly owned by Begum Nusrat Bhutto, to inform the court about her whereabouts in writing and called for report from the Karachi and Lahore police regarding execution of warrant of her arrest before adjourning the case to October 19, 2005.
An application on behalf of Benazir Bhutto for her mother Begum Nusrat Bhutto was also filed in Accountability Court Lahore that was made part of the record.
In a statement on Wednesday, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the PPP in the National Assembly deplored that a medical certificate had already been submitted that Begum Bhutto was dependent on full time care and therefore unable to defend herself but that has been ignored.
He said that the reopening of the case against the widow of the country's first directly elected Prime Minister was a worst manifestation of political vendetta.
"It only demonstrates the viciousness and vendetta of rulers", he said adding that it was intended only to torture the Bhutto family and pave way for eliminating the genuine representatives of the people to perpetuate dictatorship.
Raja Pervez Ashraf said that Begum Nusrat Bhutto was too sick to stand trial and under the law could not be tried as she was not in a position to defend herself.
The PPP leader also warned the mandarins of NAB to keep in mind the fate of the previous czars of accountability and also the rulers.
The PPP leader said that this immoral drama was being enacted only to torment former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
He said that the military regime was bent upon discrediting and destroying genuine representatives of the people through a sham accountability process.
The accountability under NAB and Musharraf is selective and designed exclusively to advance the political agenda of the regime, he said.
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