Jamaat flays government action

LAHORE, Dec 10: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Sunday attacked the government for pardoning former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Secretary-general Munawar Hussain said the move was a "major blow" to the credibility of the ongoing drive to punish the corrupt.

The National Accountability Bureau should now be abolished, Hussain demanded in a statement. "It is unfortunate for the country that both the corrupt rulers of the country, Benazir and Sharif, have succeeded in taking refuge abroad," the Jamaat leader said.

"Now that they are pardoning big plunderers and sending them abroad their campaign to bring back looters who fled the country has become a farce." -AFP
( Dawn, Dec 11, 2000 )