Irfan Qadir advocates accountability for all
Pakistan
Anyone who commits corruption should be held accountable
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Prime Minister’s Coordinator on Accountability Irfan Qadir says no immunity should be accepted on corruption charges against the judges and they should be proceeded against swiftly.
Addressing a news conference, Mr Qadir said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had been holding politicians and the bureaucrats accountable. However, some judges had influenced the bureau in their favour. He said self-accountability process was going on in the judiciary.
“Politicians’ accountability is not done by politicians, he said, but by other independent institutes. "The judiciary has been adopting the process of self-accountability and if we follow suit, the politicians and the bureaucrats should also be given the chance of self-accountability," he asserted.
The PM’s coordinator said anyone who was involved in corruption must undergo the process of accountability.
“If the judiciary is undertaking the process of accountability, it must be in line with the rule of law. There is no ambiguity in the law so far as the accountability of anyone is concerned. There is a long list of tours of a judge’s family and over Rs60 million have been spent on tours,” Mr Qadir said, adding that who committed corruption had to face accountability.
He said the government had constituted a judicial commission on audio leaks and the benches must not be formed on the wishes of a single person. "A former chief justice had formed benches of his choice and resorted to political engineering," he added.
