National Accountability Bureau (NAB) did not allow Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari to attend her father Asif Ali Zardari, under the NAB’s custody.
In a meanwhile, the Members of the Sharif family on Monday attended the PML-N’s leaders Maryam Nawaz and Hamza Shehbaz, under the custody of the National Accountability Bureau.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has condemned what it called unjustified, ferocious and biased decision of NAB.
Speaking at a press conference, PPP secretary general Farhatullah Babar on Wednesday said Ms. Aseefa was returned back by NAB officials when she went to visit her father under court orders.
Earlier, the Accountability Court had summoned NAB that Asif Zardari’s sister Azra Fazal and his son Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and daughters Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari and Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari be allowed to attend the former president Asif Zardari, who has been remanded in NAB custody, on Aug 12, 13 and 14, following Eid ul Azha.
“However, this afternoon, when Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari arrived at the NAB detention center at the appointed time she was first made to shuttle from door to door before finally being told that she cannot meet her father and though she showed a copy of the court order, it was disregarded by NAB authorities who turned her back,” Mr Babar said during a Press conference.
“By first permitting Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari to visit her father in compliance with court orders and then, upon arrival at the detention center, refusing her the meeting the NAB authorities have committed contempt of the court,” he added.
While condemning NAB’s “highhandedness”, he said the PPP would raise the matter at all available forums, including the courts, the parliament and the bar of public opinion. “The audacity of power-drunk NAB officials to flout the court orders to use as a tool of political re-engineering at the behest of Prime Minister Imran Khan is shocking and will not go unchallenged.”
Babar said those who thought that such shamefully biased tactics would tear the spirit of the Bhuttos must keep in mind that they were not made of wood that ignites easily. “Just when the nation is raising voice against the violation of human rights by India in held Kashmir such violations of the basic legal and human rights of Pakistani political prisoners only undermine a larger cause but also directly play into the hands of enemies of Pakistan.”
