ISLAMABAD: A day after appearing President Yousuf Raza Gilani promulgated the Nationwide Accountability (Modification) Ordinance to increase most interval of the bodily remand of an accused in white-collar crime from 14 to 40 days, not solely the leaders within the ruling PML-N however one among its allies additionally rejected the modification.
PML-N chief Khwaja Saad Rafiq, who has additionally confronted NAB investigation and remained underneath remand for 90 days, outrightly rejected the ordinance.
In an announcement on social media platform X, he mentioned: “Extending the bodily remand from 14 to 40 days is a tragic affair and it needs to be withdrawn. Controversial laws at all times stays unsuitable.”
Terming the NAB legislation a “black legislation”, the previous railways minister mentioned the accountability legislation was made by a dictator. “Totally different navy, civil and judicial dictators have used it (NAB legislation) for shameful political motives.”
Mr Rafiq mentioned that a number of harmless folks have been victims of the black legislation and, due to this fact, nobody may assist it.
The MQM-P, an ally of the ruling PML-N, additionally rejected the most recent modification to NAB legislation and termed it “inappropriate”.
A press release issued by the MQM’s Central Committee mentioned it won’t be right by any means to maintain an accused on remand for 40 days.
It termed the modification “un-understandable” that the sentence of an officer, who makes a case towards one on the idea of ill-will, has additionally been decreased from 5 to 2 years.
“The modification within the legislation is required to be reviewed sagaciously,” the assertion mentioned.
Since some amendments within the accountability legal guidelines made by the final authorities, NAB turned a toothless establishment to such an extent that even the bureaucrats don’t reply to the bureau’s queries.
Printed in Daybreak, Might twenty ninth, 2024