SC winds up petition against Zardari, Musharraf in NRO case

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday disposed of a petition seeking to reopen the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) case against Pakistan People’s Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, former military ruler Pervez Musharraf and former attorney general Malik Abdul Qayyum.

A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, was hearing the petition filed by Feroz Shah Gillani seeking directives for the authorities to recover huge amount of public money squandered by the above-mentioned respondents through the NRO in 2007.

At the start of the hearing, the chief justice questioned about the whereabouts of the petitioner. To which, Gillani’s lawyer replied his client couldn’t show up owing to low blood pressure and requested the bench to put off the case for 15 days.

“This is not a public interest litigation. We wrap this up,” the top adjudicator remarked and added all respondents had already furnished their replies along with the details of their assets in the court.

Naming Musharraf, Zardari and Qayyum as respondents in the petition, Gillani had pleaded apex court to order recovery of huge amount of public money allegedly embezzled by them through unlawful means already on record in different judgments of the Supreme Court and high courts.

The petitioner said the former military ruler was responsible for subverting the Constitution and promulgating the NRO through which criminal and corruption cases against politicians were ‘arbitrarily withdrawn’ causing massive financial losses to the national exchequer.

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