'N' won't allow PPP to use Sindh card

LAHORE - Beneficiaries of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) should resign from public offices on moral grounds and come with clean hands for holding any public office.
Javed Hashmi, senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) talking to The Nation on Thursday said that public figures, especially politicians who were supposed to be role models for the masses, if accused of any immoral activity, should resign on moral grounds and clear charges against them for holding public-offices.
When asked, whether PML-N high command would demand resignations of NRO beneficiaries, he said PML-N has not made any policy about demanding resignations from NRO recipients so far but he would raise the issue in party meeting.
To another query about top government figures names in NRO especially from the PPP, Javed Hashmi said he was not singling out any political party and all the NRO beneficiaries including politicians and bureaucrats should step down voluntarily and clear their names for holding any public office.
However, insiders in the PML-N confided to this scribe that their party leadership was waiting for the outcome of Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting decisions regarding NRO recipients in which President Asif Ali Zardari and Co-Chairman PPP has authorised the Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who is also the Senior Vice Chairman of PPP to reshuffle the federal cabinet after a country-wide uproar over the issue of NRO beneficiaries in public offices.
The sources further disclosed that the PML-N leadership did not want to make any hasty decision over the issue of NRO beneficiaries as reshuffle in the federal cabinet is likely to take place next month and party leadership would devise a strategy only if PPP fails to implement the decision regarding NRO recipients.