Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah announced on Saturday that anti-corruption law is going to be amended for probe of the case involving seizure of a huge cache of weapons in Azizabad area earlier this week.
While talking to the media, Shah said that the fact that weapons were seized near an office of a political party has added to the doubts of the government and law enforcement agencies, which is why the amendment in the law would be brought. Anti-corruption department was also being revamped, he added.
He utilised the opportunity to discourage the practice of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of pursuing old cases and neglecting those that were of interest in the present.
He pointed out that bureau’s practice of targeting members of a political party was wrong.
The chief minister said that he would continue his efforts to correct the system and improve government processes irrespective of whether members of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) tabled their resignations or not.
As it is there are plenty of laws in Pakistan and what is needed is their judicious application. However, the Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has expressed an intention to amend the anti-corruption law in order to deal with the case of seizure of weapons in Azizabad, near the office of a politicial party, which is not difficult to visualize even if not named.
So, alongwith locking, sealing and pulling down of MQM offices, keeping MQM members under pressure with plenty of cases filed against them, the CM, equipped with duly and suitably amended anti-corruption laws would now have another stick to beat MQM members with.
And the CM is also planning to have an in-house anti-corruption body, fully under the control of provincial goverment, in place of National Accountability Board which was becoming too much of a niusance, asking all sorts of awkward questions, as also being beyond the control of the provincial government.
So, perhaps things would now be made comfortable all around for Peoples Party members, while the provincial government would have additional powers to hunt down MQM to its heart's content, and far more effectively.
Karachi
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