Bilawal sees conspiracy behind 'selective' accountability.

SUKKUR -- Casting serious doubts over ongoing accountability process in the country, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday demanded free and transparent investigations into the video leak scandal.

'Something is not right when the same judge hears cases against both Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari,' he remarked while speaking to reporters in Sukkur. The issue of accountability court judge Arshad Malik's alleged confessional video raises serious questions over transparency of the country's judicial system, he added.

'This issue needs to be investigated in a free and transparent manner,' Bilawal said and stressed the need for impartial and independent state institutions. 'These are same institutions and judges who failed to deliver justice in cases against my grandfather [Zulfikar Ali Bhutto] and my mother [Benazir Bhutto],' he added.

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