Pak Govt legal advisers find flaws in NRO

The Pakistan Governments top legal advisers have expressed their reservations on the National Reconciliation Ordinance.

Islamabad, Oct 6 : The Pakistan Government's top legal advisers have expressed their reservations on the National Reconciliation Ordinance.

Legal advisers have told the government that the Ordinance is a weak law, adding that it has many flaws in it and could easily be challenged in the court, sources said.

They further said that the Ordinance is beyond government's jurisdiction.

Sources said that after the promulgation of the Ordinance, 1.6 billion dollar frozen assets of Pakistan People's Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari would be released.

Bhutto claims that her assets worth 2.25 billion dollars were frozen and she had claimed 2.75 billion dollars as interest on it, they added.

At one stage, the government had agreed to pay 1.75 billion dollars as interest to her and an Arab country promised to pay remaining one billion-dollar, sources added.

Nothing has been mentioned in the Ordinance on the payment of interest to her, The Nation reported.

The National Reconciliation Ordinance would grant amnesty to all politicians, bankers and bureaucrats from all charges relating to misdemeanours, misconduct and misuse of power between 1985 and 2007.

The ordinance would apply to all those against whom such allegations are outstanding in courts of law and who have not been convicted.

ANI