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PPP leadership asks NRO beneficiary Cabinet ministers to resign | The top leadership of the Pakistan People's Party has reportedly told its cabinet ministers, who were named in the Law Ministry's list of people having benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), to resign from their offices and face trial. "Yes, the PPP leadership has conveyed to NRO beneficiary
ministers to quit their offices voluntarily before the party asks them to tender
their resignations," the Daily Times quoted a PPP source, as saying. The Pakistan
Law Ministry this weekend released the names of politicians, who benefited from
the NRO or an amnesty decree that dismissed past alleged crimes. The PPP also
asked them to face their cases in courts instead of "becoming a liability to the
government". According to the source, the leadership's message was clear, that
if the co-chairman of the party could face cases against him and remain in jails,
then so should they. "President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman
of the party, will continue in his office and will face the cases, as he has been
doing in the past, after he leaves office," he said. The insider added that the
party had asked certain ministers, reportedly involved in corruption scandals,
to defend themselves in front of the media or vacate their positions. "If any
minister is not ready to defend himself or the party, he should resign," he said. |
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