Saifur Rehman, the former chairman of the defunct National Ehtesab Bureau, said on Monday that in case letters were written to the Swiss government, it was not possible for President Asif Ali Zardari to get a clean slate, which was why he was afraid of appearing before the Swiss courts.
In an interview to a private TV channel ahead of the Supreme Court hearing of the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) case here, Rehman said he had collected concrete evidence against Zardari and the case was very strong. He said that was why the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government was not writing a letter to the Swiss government because the president was scared of appearing in the Swiss courts. Rehman said the government was repeatedly making propaganda attacks against him but he and his mother never ever apologised to Zardari or anyone else. He said he had already given a statement under oath that the cases were based on facts.
