http://www.pkhope.com/go-zardari-face-the-cases/ A Candid Blog Wed, 23 May 2012 08:18:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.pkhope.com/go-zardari-face-the-cases/comment-page-1/#comment-1095218 Gillani Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:02:30 +0000 http://www.pakspectator.com/?p=21899#comment-1095218 The accountability process should not be confined only to the PPP, whose leaders had been politically victimised time and again. PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was victimised and subjected to judicial murder, while party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had also been kept in jail for long years to victimise him politically. Zardari spent 11 years in jails, but not a single case was proved against him and now, once again, baseless charges were being levelled against him. PPP did not file any politically-motivated case against the opponents despite the fact that the party itself remained a target of this sort of victimisation. If the politicians could be taken to task, why the judges and generals couldn’t be, who had been conspiring against democratic set-ups in the past. If politicians could have been held accountable for their actions since 1970, the judiciary should also be asked for its acts from 2007 onwards. The judges, generals, politicians and all those who played dubious roles in the past should be held accountable for their deeds. Even those who had remained part and parcel of subverting the Constitution by joining hands with dictators like Ziaul Haq and Musharraf were now raising questions about the delay in the scrapping of the 17th Amendment. The accountability process should not be confined only to the PPP, whose leaders had been politically victimised time and again. PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was victimised and subjected to judicial murder, while party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari had also been kept in jail for long years to victimise him politically. Zardari spent 11 years in jails, but not a single case was proved against him and now, once again, baseless charges were being levelled against him. PPP did not file any politically-motivated case against the opponents despite the fact that the party itself remained a target of this sort of victimisation. If the politicians could be taken to task, why the judges and generals couldn’t be, who had been conspiring against democratic set-ups in the past. If politicians could have been held accountable for their actions since 1970, the judiciary should also be asked for its acts from 2007 onwards. The judges, generals, politicians and all those who played dubious roles in the past should be held accountable for their deeds. Even those who had remained part and parcel of subverting the Constitution by joining hands with dictators like Ziaul Haq and Musharraf were now raising questions about the delay in the scrapping of the 17th Amendment.

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