PPP's Nafisa Shah voices against transfer of cases

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Nafisa Shah has strongly criticised transfer of cases to other venues and termed the move to transfer Sindh’s case to Punjab province as ‘illegal’, ARY News reported.

Nafisa Shah, while addressing a press conference in the Sindh Assembly, said the decision to hear cases in Rawalpindi, that have been registered in Karachi, was ‘completely illegal’.

She said, “If a case belongs to Karachi, then it won’t be transferred to Hyderabad and Hyderabad’s case won’t be heard in Peshawar.”

She said that PPP has neither feared of arrests nor it will be. Shah alleged that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was being used as political tool [against the opposition leadership].

Different politicians and the PPP were raising serious questions over the NAB’s moves, she added.

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She claimed that the Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani has been kept in small chamber. Shah added that nobody was raising questions over 90-day remand of an individual and adopting such behaviour with the speaker.

The PPP leader said, “An Assembly is being humiliated [by such actions] but not only its speaker.”

Nafisa Shah claimed that PPP has presented its stance very effectively in the National Assembly in an aggressive way. She said that scandals of opposition [parties] were not came into discussions in the Sindh Assembly.

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Shah demanded to adopt steps for adopting basic human rights and maintaining dignity of an individual.

The leadership of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is toning up rhetoric to oppose transfer of fake accounts case to Rawalpindi and Islamabad courts.

On March 15, a banking court in Karachi had ordered to transfer money laundering case through fake bank accounts against former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and other accused to Rawalpindi.

Money laundering case

Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and other accused are facing a probe into the money laundering scam involving over Rs35 billion laundered through fake bank accounts.

Zardari’s close aides Hussain Lawai and Anwar Majeed are also being investigated in the scandal. They both are in custody.

A Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe into the mega money laundering scam submitted its report in the Supreme Court. The report revealed that 29 fake bank accounts had been identified, which were used for money laundering.