Zardari, Bilawal to appear before NAB: PPP workers asked to reach capital today

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has asked its workers from across the country to come to the federal capital to express solidarity with party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari who will appear before National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in fake accounts case today (Wednesday).
The NAB has summoned Zardari and Bilawal to appear before the joint investigation team (JIT) in its Rawalpindi bureau in connection with the Park Lane Estate case. Before the party announced that the party chairman would appear before NAB, Bilawal took to twitter and accused the government of issuing 'death threats' and the NAB notices in response to his demand to sack ministers "associated with the banned outfits".
"The government has responded to my demand to sack ministers associated with banned outfits by declaring me anti-state, issuing death threats & NAB notices. None of this deters us from our principled stand; form joint NSC parliamentary committee & act against banned outfits," Bialwal tweeted.
PPP Secretary General Nayyer Hussain Bukhari, while talking to Business Recorder, maintained that the move indicates that the government was "afraid" of the political and national role being played by the PPP chairman. "PPP believes in the power of the people and its relation with the masses can not be broken. The NAB should not be used as a political tool for victimizing opponents", he said.
He said that PPP leadership is not afraid of any intimidation and will face pressure. "We believe both Zardari and Bilawal will emerge victorious in all graft references filed against them", he added.
He said that party workers from the across the country have been asked to come to Islamabad to express solidarity with the party leadership. He said that senior party leaders and workers from twin cities, Rawalpindi and Islamabad, various cities of Punjab and the rest of the country would accompany the party leadership to the NAB to express solidarity with them.
"This not a protest, but a peaceful gathering and the party workers will only be there to express solidarity with their leaders who have been summoned by the NAB in a fabricated case against them," he said. Bilawal has decided that he will appear before the NAB with his father, he added.
Talking to Business Recorder PML-N secretary-information Senator Mushahidullah Khan said that political opponents are being subjected to victimization in the name of accountability. "This is nothing but selective accountability to punish political opponents. Nawaz Sharif is being targeted because he wants rule of law and to uphold the constitution," he maintained.
About summoning Bilawal by the NAB, Mushahidullah said that it is not a 'good move' in the country's politics as Bilawal is a new entrant to politics. "This is a manifestation of what we have been saying since long notably that this accountability is one-sided and its main objective is political revenge," he added.
To a question, he said that every political party has the right to peaceful protest, adding that PPP workers also have the right to show solidarity with their leadership on the occasion of their appearance before the NAB. A senior office of the Islamabad Capital Administration (ICT) said that strict security arrangements will be made on the occasion of Zardari and Bilawal's appearance before the NAB today (Wednesday).