By Ansar Abbasi ISLAMABAD: If the government failed to secure NROs parliamentary validation with retrospective effect latest by November 30th, then legally speaking, important government officials.
The Three Beneficiaries of NRO
including some federal and provincial ministers and key appointees, would face the rather unsavoury but very real prospect of landing in prison, was the off- the-record opinion given to The News by the legal eagles of the law ministry itself.
For their part, the Law ministry sources admit that if the government does not proceed strictly in line with the Supreme Courts decision on November 3 actions, all those who had benefited from the NRO after the first week of February 2008 would become accused as they stood before their acquittal under the controversial law.
Sources in the NAB told The News that some leading federal and provincial ministers, key advisers, high profile appointees and some of those holding important foreign assignments would become fugitives of law as they were beefore the promulgation of the NRO.
Besides, more than 2,000 beneficiaries of the NRO belonging to the MQM, most of whom were party workers and second and third tier leaders, the NAB sources said that almost 300 politicians and civilian bureaucrats took advantage of the NRO.
only such rights, privileges, obligations, or liabilities would lawfully be protected as were acquired, accrued or incurred under the said ordinances during the period of four months or three months, as the case may be, from their promulgation, whether before or after November 3, 2007, and not thereafter, until such ordinances were enacted as Acts by the parliament, the Supreme Court had clearly ruled.
The Three Beneficiaries of NRO
including some federal and provincial ministers and key appointees, would face the rather unsavoury but very real prospect of landing in prison, was the off- the-record opinion given to The News by the legal eagles of the law ministry itself.
For their part, the Law ministry sources admit that if the government does not proceed strictly in line with the Supreme Courts decision on November 3 actions, all those who had benefited from the NRO after the first week of February 2008 would become accused as they stood before their acquittal under the controversial law.
Sources in the NAB told The News that some leading federal and provincial ministers, key advisers, high profile appointees and some of those holding important foreign assignments would become fugitives of law as they were beefore the promulgation of the NRO.
Besides, more than 2,000 beneficiaries of the NRO belonging to the MQM, most of whom were party workers and second and third tier leaders, the NAB sources said that almost 300 politicians and civilian bureaucrats took advantage of the NRO.
only such rights, privileges, obligations, or liabilities would lawfully be protected as were acquired, accrued or incurred under the said ordinances during the period of four months or three months, as the case may be, from their promulgation, whether before or after November 3, 2007, and not thereafter, until such ordinances were enacted as Acts by the parliament, the Supreme Court had clearly ruled.
