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The Supreme Court has now directed the Law Secretary to assist the Attorney-General in completing the paperwork regarding the Swiss cases.
ISLAMABAD: Law Ministry functionaries are not interested in implementing the Supreme Court’s verdict on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Law Secretary denied that Law Minister Babar Awan was creating obstructions in the way of reopening Swiss cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
“I am surprised by the Attorney-General statements regarding the Law Minister,” the Law Secretary said.
Earlier, Attorney-General Pakistan Anwar Mansoor had informed the Supreme Court that the Law Minister was creating hurdles in reopening the cases.
Mansoor said he was unable to get the details of the Swiss cases at which the Supreme Court summoned the Law Secretary.
The Supreme Court has now directed the Law Secretary to assist the Attorney-General in completing the paperwork regarding the Swiss cases.
The court also directed the secretary to submit a detailed report on the issue by April 5.
Earlier on Thursday, the Supreme Court raised objections on the letter written by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to authorities in Switzerland.
The court directed the government to send the letter by 1 pm after approval by the Prime Minister.
The objections followed a statement by the Swiss Prosecutor General that cases in Switzerland against President Zardari could not be opened since he enjoyed immunity as head of state.
During the hearing, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry also said the letter was not sufficient to reopen the cases.
NAB’s letter to Swiss authorities was still pending with the law ministry. However, NAB had earlier told the court that a letter to the Swiss government for reopening cases against President Zardari had been sent.
NAB had also filed a statement to the apex court along with documents detailing the actions taken.
After all there is another court, which is bigger than all courts combined, it is the court of the people. The critics forget to take into account the most important notion that despite all the rotten charges of corruption and the NRO, the people of Pakistan still voted for PPP. Asif Ali Zardari was elected by an overwhelming two-thirds majority and the significant part of the election was that representatives of three smaller provinces voted almost unanimously for him. He is the lynchpin of the federation and little do all these anti-democratic forces realize that it is not in the genes of the party of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to back down. Not now, not ever. It is time for democracy to prevail to reclaim Jinnah’s Pakistan. We must realize that the present democratic dispensation is the sequel to NRO. Had it not been achieved, there would have been no elections, no assemblies, no free judiciary and no free media. The national leadership too would still have been languishing in exile.