PPP to respond to NAB’s questionnaires handed over to Bilawal, Zardari

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has decided to respond to questionnaire to be handed over by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his father Asif Ali Zardari in Park Lane Estate Company case.

Addressing a press conference here, the PPP Central General Secretary and former Senate chairman Nayyar Hussain Bukhari and party’s Punjab General Secretary Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmad said that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Zardari would defend their case and respond to all written and verbal allegations and questions.

“The PPP leadership had faced fake case in the past but the same could not be proved,” Nayyar Bukhari said, adding that the last letter from a retired army officer before committing suicide in Islamabad also raised many questions on transparent working of the NAB.

Bukhari pointed out that cases against Asif Zardari and Faryal Talpur should have been heard in banking court while the cases which related to Sindh were unnecessarily transferred to Islamabad.

Manzoor Ahmad said that PPP Rawalpindi Division had decided that the party workers would reach NAB office in order to express solidarity with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday (today). “The NAB Sindh should be closed if cases relating to Sindh are to be transferred to Islamabad,” he said.

He said that founder of PPP Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto fell victim to judicial murder while Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during tenure of a dictator and now a federal minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed is giving death threats to Bilawal. “We will get FIR registered against Sheikh Rashid at the concerned police station,” he said.