LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Anwar Qazi has said that the ministers who got benefit from controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) should immediately resign from their offices and face cases before courts. After the lapse of NRO, he added, Asif Ali Zardari’s nomination as President was now ‘open to question’ and the SC would have to decide his (president) candidature in any case.
He was addressing a Press conference after the maiden meeting of SCBA’s executive body at Karachi Shuhada Hall of the Lahore High Court Bar Association here on Tuesday.
“I want to clear one thing. I have no personal animosity against Zardari. In my opinion, Zardari was not eligible to contest presidential election at all because corruption cases were pending against him at that time”, Anwar Qazi clarified. He said that under article 248, 41, 62 and 63 he (Zardari) was not eligible to contest elections at the time of his nomination.
He cited the example of Italy where a constitutional court had recently overturned a law granting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while in office because the judges said immunity violated the principle that all citizens were equal. He said that system in Pakistan had crippled down, as everyone was busy in looting money by hook or crook. “Menace of corruption, bribery and dishonesty has taken its toll on the national resources that has destructed our very foundation,” he added.
Qazi pledged that the lawyers would continue their struggle for uprooting these evils, which has made people lives miserable.
Source: nation.com.pk/
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