PPP says NAB ordinance 'mother of all NROs': Kaira.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Sunday slammed the government for its National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Amendment Ordinance 2019 by referring to it as the "mother of all NROs".

"Khan sahab accused us of asking for NROs all this while. The NAB ordinance is the mother of all NROs. What will he say about that," asked Kaira during a press conference.

He accused the government of bringing about amendments in NAB ordinance to save itself from accountability. Kaira said the anti-graft body held people from the two political parties accountable.

"Those who joined the PTI were washed of all their sins," he said, accusing the government of filing case corruption cases against the PPP and the PML-N.

The PPP leader wondered who the prime minister was referring to in his speech on Saturday where he accused some people of objecting to the government's reforms.

"Who was the prime minister referring to when he spoke about someone objecting to reforms? He should clarify this," said Kaira.

Kaira said the prime minister was about to take the last u-turn of his political career.

"Khan sahab will now take one last u-turn due to which he will leave politics the same way he came into it," he said. "This will be his biggest u-turn of all."

The PPP leader, without exactly naming anyone in particular, said those who got selected were used...

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