Ali Musa Gilani, the scion of ousted prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and an accused in the Rs 7 billion ephedrine quota scam, is all set to exercise privileges available to him for being a member of the National Assembly and will submit a privilege motion in National Assembly on September 20 against his manhandling and arrest by ANF officials outside the Supreme Court, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Ali will request the NA standing committee on rules of procedure and privileges to take action against ANF officials involved in breach of his privileges, Faisal Chaudhry, Ali’s lawyer, said.
Faisal said being an MNA, Ali had decided to submit a motion in NA because it was his parliamentary right to raise a voice against manhandling by ANF officials.
He said Musa was ready for a fair investigation into the scam, but the ANF took illegal step and arrested an honorable parliamentarian when he was going to surrender himself to the apex court.
“Ali Musa belongs to a respectable political family and the ANF is damaging his family repute per a plan,” the lawyer added.
Faisal also said he would write to the apex court today (Monday) and would request the court to take ANF to task, as despite clear orders by the chief justice of Pakistan that Ali Musa Gilani should not be harassed, the ANF officials arrested him in a humiliating manner.
“The ANF has the right to arrest Musa Gilani at any other site of the city, but how come they arrested an accused on apex court premises.”
Faisal added the ANF was unnecessarily harassing his client to save its skin from the international bodies, because if the International Narcotics Control Board that was also looking into the ephedrine case gave a negative report, Pakistan might face sanctions by the UN.
Ali Musa to move NA against ‘harassment’ by ANF
