Only 10 NRO Cases Against PPP Leaders: Rehman Mali

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed on Sunday that only 10 out of more than eight thousand cases withdrawn under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) were against the PPP leaders.

“A total of 8442 cases were withdrawn under the NRO and there were only 10 cases in which the accused belonged to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP),” Malik told the journalists after attending a march aimed at promoting sectarian harmony during Muharram.

The minister said that the government respects the superior judiciary and will implement its verdicts in letter and spirit.

To a query he said that Pakistan is fighting the terror war for its own sake and will achieve success in its bid to root out militancy from its soil.

Govt. and PML-N have reconciled on NRO: Ch Shujaat

Lahore, Pakistan:- Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain says that reconciliation has been envisaged between government and PML-N on the National Reconciliation Ordinance.

Former president Pervez Musharraf had issued NRO on October 5, 2007 under which cases against politicians were withdrawn on political grounds.

Hussain claimed that PML-N members would remain absent from the voting. Separately, PML-N leader Khawja Asif told that NRO was a black law which was against the sprit of democracy. Asif maintained that PML-N was opposed to the approval of NRO.