Bulletins 1200 27th March 2018

ISLAMABAD: Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif says the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance, 1999 promulgated by a dictator is aimed to target politicians.

While interacting with journalists on the premises of the accountability court hearing corruption references against him and members of his family, he said the law was instituted in 2002 to force politicians into changing loyalties.

He expressed apprehension that the law might be wrongly used to achieve desired ends before the upcoming 2018 general elections.

Sharif called for doing away with all the laws introduced during military regimes in the country.

When asked about his statement on sitting with state institutions, he said he was not waiting for “a signal”, neither was he in habit of acting on signals.

He clarified that he talked about sitting with state institutions for the sake of democracy and the rule of law.

Sharif said they had given a lot of sacrifices for democracy and will continue doing so in the future.

He said they were not the people who look towards umpire’s finger, but they believed in the might of thumb of voters.