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Presidential Ordinance
An ordinance taking away certain powers of the NAB and giving them to the Ministry of Law is said to have been issued under rather strange circumstances by the President on September 16th but made public around the end of the month. According to it the Ministry of Law would be able to transfer a NAB case under trial from one judge to another at any time or stage of the trial. It is generally alleged to have been incorporated to favour the blue eyed NRO beneficiaries, whose cases have reopened, to be tried by the favourite judges appointed by the regime.
Does it mean a judge would be expected to dispense the justice unjustly, against the merits of the case and against his conscience? If so, God help the judiciary and democracy in the land of the pure.
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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