NAB notices won't stop Bilawal from launching movement against government: Khokhar

Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, spokesperson for Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has said that whenever his party chairman declares intention to launch an anti-government movement, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) starts sending him notices. Talking to the media outside the Parliament House on Thursday, he said, "these notices will not stop PPP from launching a movement against the government.

The NAB chairperson should clarify why federal ministers were representing the NAB instead of the NAB's spokesman, the senator asked. He said that Bilawal had never held a public office until recently. Khokhar said the NAB should summon those who had created flour and sugar crises and the people who embezzled public money in the BRT, Malam Jabba, Billion Tree Tsunami and other projects in the KP.

The senator said that the government did not have anything to show as its performance. Khokhar said that the response given by Firdous Ashiq Awan and Shahzad Akbar on Thursday to Bilawal Bhutto's media talk carried no relevance to facts.

Why have these ministers come out in support of the NAB? he asked. "Former chief justice of Pakistan is on the record to have said that the NAB is no more impartial. Bilawal is innocent and the chief justice had said so but the government ministers are misguiding people," Khokhar said. He said the government had brought inflation to its peak by striking a deal with the International Monitory fund (IMF).

Khokhar further sais that now even international institutions were reporting that there was political victimisation in Pakistan. The senator said that when press could not be crushed during martial law regimes how could this government succeed in strangling the voice of the media. "We condemn the ban on advertisements for the newspaper founded by Quaid-e-Azam and PPP will continue to raise its voice for the media," he concluded.