Avoiding additional note on NRO
Dawn | 22nd October, 2010
The
NRO is probably the most discussed topic in Pakistan. A presidential ordinance
issued by Pervez Musharraf on Oct 5, 2007, it aimed at providing amnesty to all
those who were allegedly involved in some political cases and were not proved
guilty.
The
NRO is also being used as a tool for character assassination. It is also
unjust, however, to label all the NRO beneficiaries as guilty because courts
are so far unable to prove such cases against them. Salman Farooqui, Agha Siraj
Durrani and Senator Jahanger Badar were acquitted by the court.
Unfortunately
the additional note on the NRO verdict has been ignored which was written by
Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan.
He
writes: “Many accountability cases were politically-motivated,
politically-indicted, and politically-prolonged as sword of Damocles.
“If
genuine, why were they dishonestly prolonged and no verdict obtained against
the accused involved? Attaining benefit from the NRO is no crime in itself,
neither does it prove that the beneficiaries are all guilty, the verdict rather
provides them a chance to prove their innocence via courts of law”.
Why
has such an important additional note been ignored by the court and the free
media. While demanding resignations, the opposition must remember that they
were greater indirect beneficiaries of NRO.
SHAFIQ
SOLANGI
Islamabad
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