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STORY: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday said he and his family were being threatened to compel them to toe the government line, but they would never agree to anything unlawful.
Bilawal was addressing the media after his father, former president Asif Ali Zardari, attended a hearing at the accountability court, in the Toshakhana reference case.
“We are feeling that there is pressure on us. We are feeling that we are being threatened to toe the line, to follow the script, that we should agree to changes in the 18th Ammendment. That we should also agree to changes in the NFC (National Finance Commission) Award. That we should agree to pass Black Laws from the Parliament. But we have not accepted pressure in the past, we do not accept it now, and in the future you will see the same also,” Bilawal said.
He was referring to the National Finance Commission Award, a series of planned economic programs in Pakistan enacted since 1951, a program that awards the designs of financial formulas of economic distribution to provincial and federal government for five consecutive years, and to the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Pakistan , a law passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan in 2010, removing the power of the President of Pakistan to dissolve the Parliament unilaterally, and renaming North-West Frontier Province to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Bilawal claimed that he is being pressured to change his stance onthese issues otherwise his father and his party workers would face punishments.
“Today, I want to repeat this again in front of the Pakistani public, in front of the Pakistani media, that if you want to arrest my entire family, do it. We will not let anything affect the 18th Amendment, or the 1973 Constitution. We will not give way on human rights, on democratic rights, on the economic rights of the poor people of this country. You go ahead and do what you want to do,” he said.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed a reference with the accountability court against Zardari and former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani accusing them of handing the foreign gifted vehicles in violation of rules of Toshakhana that caused a heavy loss to national exchequer.
According to NAB, Zardari had received expensive cars as a gift from Libya and the UAE as president but did not deposit them in the Tosha Khana.
The court had issued warrants for Zardari in Toshakhana accountability reference and asked him to appear before the Accountability Court on August 17.
Sfter the hearing, the Accoutability court ruled that Zardari and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillani will be indicted in the Toshakhana reference on Sept 9.
Zardari faces indictment in multiple corruption cases. Earlier this month, he was indicted in one of them – the Park Lane Reference -- through video link.
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Bilawal says his family is being threatened to toe the government line.
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Chairman Pakistani Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari says he and his family will not bend before the extra-judicial demands of the government.
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Shotlist: ISLAMABAD , PAKISTAN (AUGUST 17 , 2020) (VNA – ACCESS ALL)
- PAKISTANI FLAG FLYING OVER ACCOUNTABILITY COURT
- POLICEMEN IN PICKET ON ROOF OF COURT
- VARIOUS OF SECURITY BLOCKING ROAD LEADING TO COURT
- VARIOUS OF LAWYERS AND PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY (PPP) WORKERS STANDING ON ROAD OUTSIDE COURT
- LAWYERS FOR FORMER PRESIDENT ASIF ALI ZARDARI ARRIVING
- POLICE DRONE FLYING OVERHEAD
- CHAIRMAN PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY (PPP), BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI, GETTING OUT OF CAR AND WALKING INTO COURT
- CAR ENTERING COURT
- BILWAL ADDRESSING MEDIA AFTER HEARING
- (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) CHAIRMAN PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY (PPP), BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI, SAYING:
- “We are feeling that there is pressure on us. We are feeling that we are being threatened to toe the line, to follow the script, that we should agree to changes in the 18th Ammendment. That we should also agree to changes in the NFC (National Finance Commission) Award. That we should agree to pass Black Laws from the Parliament. But we have not accepted pressure in the past, we do not accept it now, and in the future you will see the same also.”
- SECURITY
- (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) CHAIRMAN PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY (PPP), BILAWAL BHUTTO ZARDARI, SAYING:
- “Today, I want to repeat this again in front of the Pakistani public, in front of the Pakistani media, that if you want to arrest my entire family, do it. We will not let anything affect the 18th Amendment, or the 1973 Constitution. We will not give way on human rights, on democratic rights, on the economic rights of the poor people of this country. You go ahead and do what you want to do.”
- POLICEMEN ON GUARD
STORY: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday said he and his family were being threatened to compel them to toe the government line, but they would never agree to anything unlawful.
Bilawal was addressing the media after his father, former president Asif Ali Zardari, attended a hearing at the accountability court, in the Toshakhana reference case.
“We are feeling that there is pressure on us. We are feeling that we are being threatened to toe the line, to follow the script, that we should agree to changes in the 18th Ammendment. That we should also agree to changes in the NFC (National Finance Commission) Award. That we should agree to pass Black Laws from the Parliament. But we have not accepted pressure in the past, we do not accept it now, and in the future you will see the same also,” Bilawal said.
He was referring to the National Finance Commission Award, a series of planned economic programs in Pakistan enacted since 1951, a program that awards the designs of financial formulas of economic distribution to provincial and federal government for five consecutive years, and to the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Pakistan , a law passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan in 2010, removing the power of the President of Pakistan to dissolve the Parliament unilaterally, and renaming North-West Frontier Province to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Bilawal claimed that he is being pressured to change his stance onthese issues otherwise his father and his party workers would face punishments.
“Today, I want to repeat this again in front of the Pakistani public, in front of the Pakistani media, that if you want to arrest my entire family, do it. We will not let anything affect the 18th Amendment, or the 1973 Constitution. We will not give way on human rights, on democratic rights, on the economic rights of the poor people of this country. You go ahead and do what you want to do,” he said.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had filed a reference with the accountability court against Zardari and former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani accusing them of handing the foreign gifted vehicles in violation of rules of Toshakhana that caused a heavy loss to national exchequer.
According to NAB, Zardari had received expensive cars as a gift from Libya and the UAE as president but did not deposit them in the Tosha Khana.
The court had issued warrants for Zardari in Toshakhana accountability reference and asked him to appear before the Accountability Court on August 17.
Sfter the hearing, the Accoutability court ruled that Zardari and former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gillani will be indicted in the Toshakhana reference on Sept 9.
Zardari faces indictment in multiple corruption cases. Earlier this month, he was indicted in one of them – the Park Lane Reference -- through video link.
