Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah has accused federal minister Ali Zaidi of making the recently-released Joint Investigation Team’s report on Lyari gangster Uzair Baloch controversial, alleging that he was trying to do that to favour the accused.
Speaking to the media after his appearance at the National Accountability Bureau, Shah said they would only submit that report in court which had signatures of all the members of the JIT.
The chief minister added, they [Sindh government] released the report because they were under too much pressure. Ali Zaidi showed irresponsibility. I don’t know where he got the report from,” Shah said. “If Ali Zaidi can tell us this then the media would not have published the JIT. Someone comes at night and hand him [Ali Zaidi] a piece of paper on a motorcycle and the next day he starts telling everyone about it. If Ali Zaidi’s statement helps the accused or destroys the case then there will be legal repercussions,” he said.
A day earlier, Zaidi while addressing a press conference, asked Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed to take a suo motu notice on the Uzair Baloch JIT report released by the Sindh government, saying the original report had been tampered with.
“It was our party’s efforts, Ali Zaidi went to court as well. The JIT reports were not being made public,” said information minister Shibli Faraz, accusing parties in power in Sindh of establishing their “personal state” rather than establishing the rule of law.
