Attempt being made to pressurise opposition through NAB: PPP chairman

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that an attempt is being made to pressurise the opposition through the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

While talking to media in Islamabad, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that today again the PPP workers and leaders were prevented from going to court. The Islamabad administration also barred lawyers from going to court. 

He said that the lawyers of the Supreme Court were insulted by the administration today while the lawyers of the NAB were insulting them. Chairman PPP said that the efforts are being made to put pressure on us but we will not change our position under any pressure. “Even if my entire family is arrested, we will not allow changing the 1973 Constitution and the 18th Amendment.

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He said that the PPP has always fought against dictatorship and we will not come under any kind of pressure even today. The era of the puppet Prime Minister is also coming to an end.

Bilawal Bhutto asked, “Are they so afraid of former President Asif Ali Zardari?” The NAB is trying to run the case on its own by putting pressure, he maintained. The PPP chairman said that by putting pressure on the opposition through NAB, an attempt was being made to run it like a puppet.