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Kaira denies rumours of differences between Zardari, Gilani over NRO list | Pakistan Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has refuted reports about differences between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yosuf Raza Gilani on the issue of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). Talking to media persons
here, Kaira said there is 'no basis for such an impression created by certain
elements.' It is worth mentioning here that the undeclared cold war between the
Zardari and Gilani came out in the open, when top presidential aides expressed
their strong opposition to the PM-signed law ministry order, which named them
as beneficiaries. "The innocent continued to be maligned with the guilty ones
even after 12 years of media trial and no effort was being made to separate the
two," President's secretary general Salman Faruqui said earlier. Kaira also rejected
demands for the resignation of NRO beneficiaries, saying people have been accused
and not convicted. "Accusation and conviction are two different things and an
accused cannot be declared a convict unless a court of law hands in a verdict
to this effect," The Dawn quoted Kaira, as saying. He stressed that the list of
beneficiaries was prepared by the National Accountability Bureau and not by the
Ministry of Law. While the list includes the names of President Asif Ali Zardari
and 36 other politicians, including Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf
Hussain, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his wife are not on the beneficiaries
list. The list also names several bureaucrats, including Pakistan's Ambassador
to the US Hussain Haqqani and Secretary General to the President Salman Farooqi.
Meanwhile, Zardari reportedly met Gilani here to defuse 'tension' between their
respective camps. According to sources, Zardari is angered by the way the NRO
beneficiaries list was released to the media. They said Zardari wanted the list
to be made public only after removing fallacies from it. Zardari is also said
to have supported the view of the PPP leaders who objected to the list being made
public, saying it was done in 'haste'.
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