Staff Reporter
Islamabad
The opposition parties have moved a motion in the upper house of the parliament against the alleged human rights violation and acts of reprisal committed by the country’s top graft buster – the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Leader of the Opposition Senator Raja Zafarul Haq – who belongs to the PML-N –moved the motion when the new Senate session – which was requisitioned by the opposition – started on Friday. Haq said due to NAB’s actions there is likely to remain a discordant and chaotic situation in the country and the political atmosphere will remain tense. He said a person accused of corruption is first dishonored in the media even before the start of his trial.
“To defame people and put them behind bars [without proper investigation or trial] is not the right way.
“We don’t want to protect any person who has committed a crime. However, not only the common people but also the Supreme Court of Pakistan has declared NAB actions one-sided.
“We demand that the matter of NAB actions be sent to the relevant parliamentary committee,” he said.
Referring to the recent arrest of former foreign minister Khawaja Asif, Haq said everybody knows how NAB arrested the key PML-N leader. “Khawaja Asif was in the middle of a meeting when he was informed that some people wanted to meet him outside.
