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Swiss govt can't do anything while President Zardari has immunity: Report
Lawyer representing govt in Swiss cases says Swiss authorities will pursue case if presidential immunity is abolished.
Lawyer representing govt in Swiss cases says Swiss authorities will follow suit if presidential immunity is abolished. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
The lawyer representing the Pakistan government in Swiss cases, talking to Geo News on Thursday, said that the Swiss government cannot do anything in the graft cases due to presidential immunity even if a letter is written.
However, he added that the Swiss authorities will follow up on the case if the government decides to abolish presidential immunity.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan had ordered the government to write a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari in the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case. However, the government did not comply with the orders maintaining that the president has immunity in the case.
On non-implementation of the court orders, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was held in contempt of the court and was ordered once more to write the letter.
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The law officer,
representing Pakistan in Switzerland
has specified the total legal position
attributed to the graft cases against
incumbent president.
In the light of the statement,
printed and broadcasted by the international media,
Swiss courts are not in position to open graft case
against Zardari until he president because as a president
he has constitutional immunity .
On the other hand,
a very important institution of the state is insisting,
that head of the executive write the letter to the Swiss
authority.
It mean there is something secret or complicated to which,
common man is still unable to understand.
At this stage,
prime minister’s opinion compels our mind to think and accept it,
when he is saying”had I been chief justice of Pakistan,
I would have referred the immunity issue to the Parliament..
Parliament is better form to resolve the issue.
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Pakistan is not in position to face more crisis.
Sensitive matters must be solved with harmony
and in the light of principle,not based on revenge.
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Zardari has immunity till he is president, after the president’ s term is over,he will in Dubai mentally sick sending medical notes to courts until American assure him another NRO?
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