Islamabad, Mar 16(ANI): The Pakistan Government has strongly contradicted a news report that said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which appears friendly to President Asif Ali Zardari and his coterie, is extraordinarily soft on the Sharif brothers and other opposition leaders, too.
"Practically the NAB under present regime is not interested in pursuing corruption cases against any politician whether in the government or in the opposition," The News had quoted 'well-informed' NAB sources, as saying in its report 'NAB soft on Zardari as well as Sharifs'.
The report also said that the government is clearly reluctant to go for an independent accountability commission, which is part of the Charter of Democracy signed between the PPP and the PML-N, and is inclined to continue with the tamed NAB, so that it could be used as per the personal whims and wishes of the rulers.
Rejecting the contents of the report, a spokesman for the federal government said that the fundamental purpose of the writer was to malign the present government and belittle its achievements.
"It reflects a malafide mindset on the part of the writer," the spokesman said, adding the writer needed to make effort to write new stories instead of recycling published baseless stories.
He said that it was, in fact, an admission and confirmation by the reporter that the NAB was no more an institution for political witch-hunting under democratic dispensation as it used to be in the past under the authoritarian regimes.
"The story also manifests a secret desire by the writer to bring back the nightmares of the same era by pinpointing political forces he would like NAB to go after," he added.
The spokesman said that the writer needs to appreciate the commendable policies and achievements of the present the Pakistan People's Party-led democratic government, which strictly adheres to the policies of reconciliation and will not bring back the witch-hunt era.
However, Ansar Abbasi, the writer of the report, said that the newspaper "stands by its story." (ANI)
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