Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz has said the government will never offer any kind of NRO to the opposition.
Speaking at a news conference here Monday, he said the opposition had proposed 34 out of 38 amendments in the National Accountability Ordinance to hide corruption of its leadership committed in the past. He said they pressurized the government by proposing these amendments, at a time when the government was seeking opposition’s cooperation in Financial Action Task Force related legislation to bring Pakistan out of FATF’s grey list.
Shibli Faraz said the opposition proposed that NAB should not have powers to take up cases reported before 1999 and should only take notice of corruption cases reported in the last five years.
He said the opposition also suggested that corruption cases of less than one billion rupees, willful default or writing off loan, and offence of money laundering should stay out of NAB’s purview. The Minister said another proposal is to change the definition of Benamidars, giving free hand to make corruption in the name of wife and children. It was proposed to allow convicts to contest elections till final disposal of their cases and disqualification should be up to only five years. He said opposition desired to make redundant the international mutual legal assistance law and dealing it under law of evidence of Pakistan.
