Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairperson and former president Asif Zardari has expressed concern over the sentencing of Sindh MPA Syed Ali Nawaz Shah by a NAB court in Karachi, terming it misuse of judicial processes for political victimisation. PPP MPA Ali Nawaz Shah was sentenced to five years in jail on various corruption charges. The PPP maintains that the case in which he was sentenced to 5 years was registered against him nearly 15 years ago.
In a statement issued on Friday, Zardari said that it is strange that according to case profile Ali Nawaz Shah is sentenced to five years in jail for compensation paid to him by the state for his property in 2001. If this becomes the norm and judicial processes are thus misused and manipulated to secure convictions of political opponents things will go too far, he said.
Zardari said: "Ali Nawaz Shah's sentencing has brought to the fore yet again how federal institutions are being manipulated for political victimization in the provinces." He warned against the "inevitable" consequences of this "regressive" policy of political witch-hunting and victimisation. The former president said the federal agencies must not go too far and land themselves in a quagmire from which they may find it difficult to extricate themselves.
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