Jalal, Magsi all praise for SHC decision on NAB
By Our Staff Correspondent
2017-08-18
HYDERABAD: Sindh United Party (SUP) president Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah and Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) chairman Dr Qadir Magsi have commended the Sindh High Court`s decision to allow National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to continue working in the province.
In a statement issued here on Thursday, the SUP chief said that Sindh was being governed by anti-accountability elements who believed only in corruption. The SHC had rendered new legislation passed by Sindh Assembly against National Accountability Ordinance (NAO)ineffective which was commendable, he said.
He said that people who were wantedbylaw for a long time were ruling Sindh.
The intention behind passage of antiNABlaw was to protect the corrupt, but it lacked people`s support, he said.
He said that corruption had not only destroyed the economy but also ruined political ethics. Therefore, people no longer felt shy of switching political loyalties, he said.
He said that a handful of families always tried to keep clinging on to power.
Mr Shah expressed hope that thousands, including women, would participate in the party`s Aug 20 `Sindh March`. Women had played an importantroleinpoliticalstruggles,sowomen from his own Syed family would also participate in the long march to be part of anti-corruption campaign, he said.
STP chairman Dr Magsi welcomedthe decision of SHC allowing NAB to work in the province and said that it was an important decision against corruption.
He said that NAB was also required to work efficiently and transparently because people of Sindh also had some reservations over the way it worked.
NAB would have to be impartial in its work since arresting lower-ranking officers and then letting them off after plea bargain instead of taking action against influential culprits had made NAB`s performance doubtful, he said.
He said that NAB authorities should take notice of it and take impartial actions to portray a picture of an honest agency. If it did not happen then there would be no difference between NAB and the institutions already created by rulers, he said.
