LARKANA: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani said on Sunday that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had completely failed to deliver under the present circumstances.
“The accountability of all people, including politicians and bureaucrats, should be done under one law, and there should also be one court to deal with these issues,” he said, while talking to media at Garhi Khuda Bux Town, near Naundero.
Rabbani said that a National Accountability Commission should be established and all stakeholders should be members of its board of directors. He said accountability courts should be under the high courts, so as to make the process transparent. He said that he had written an open letter a few days back, in which he had talked in detail about the new system. A copy of the letter, he said, had also been sent to the parliamentary committee looking into the NAB law.
To a question, Rabbani replied that when the 18th Amendment of the Constitution had been passed, both the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had supported the formation of a caretaker government for holding general elections. “The caretaker government’s work should be confined to holding free, fair and elections. It should not make long-term economic agreements with IMF and other agencies,” he said.
He said that the national security policy should be reviewed by the parliament, adding that Pakistan’s foreign policy should also be debated and reviewed in Parliament. “All important decisions must also be made in Parliament, instead of APCs, to make it stronger,” he said.
Rabbani said that the 4th April incident happened in Pakistan through an international conspiracy when Shaheed Bhutto had been “judicially murdered”. He said it was Bhutto who had launched the atomic programme for Pakistan which was not acceptable to western countries, especially the US.
“Bhutto gathered all Muslim Ummah by holding the Lahore Summit, and using oil as an economic tool for the welfare of the Muslim Ummah which was the main cause of his judicial murder,” he said. He said that all popular leaders of that era, including Nasser, Sukarno, Bomadiyan and Bhutto, were one by one removed to create instability. He said that opponents of Bhutto had totally failed to find any corruption charges against him because he had made all decisions on merit.
Rabbani showered rose petals and offered fateha. He was accompanied by PPP leader Waqar Mehdi, the commissioner and local PPP activists.
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