JI raps govt for bypassing parliament while clipping NAB's wings.

LAHORE -- Describing the presidency as a factory of ordinances on promulgating yet another decree regarding powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq says the government has attempted to clip wings of the top anti-graft body through the step taken without bringing people's representatives into the loop.

At a press conference here on Sunday, he said NAB was used for gaining political mileage in the past too and the present regime had also not refrained from the malpractice. He said NAB did need to be restructured but the task should be accomplished through parliament to make it an impartial but powerful institution taking all stakeholders on board, and not on the basis of the whims and policies of one group.

He regretted that the PTI government had practically rendered parliament a non-existent entity by resorting to law making through ordinances. He lamented that democracy and democratic norms were never allowed to strengthen and stabilise in the past and now Imran's regime was doing the same.

'There is a need for ending the concept of rule of the institutions,' he said, adding that the wishes of the masses should be respected in the larger interest of the country.

For achieving the said goal, he said, a powerful, impartial and vibrant election commission was a must. All the political parties...