NRO a test for Parliament's supremacy: Shahbaz

LAHORE - President Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that elements responsible for the passage of NRO will be held equally responsible for the crimes for whose protection this law is being enacted.
Shahbaz Sharif said that success of NRO would be the defeat of Pakistani nation.
While issuing a policy statement regarding NRO, Saturday, Shahbaz Sharif said that passage of the bill by the Parliament would be tantamount to murdering established political, legal and democratic norms.
He was sure that no conscientious parliamentarian would participate in the process to disgrace the Parliament. Shahbaz Sharif further said that the Parliament-related illegal decision of Justice Munir was still considered a black chapter in the political history of Pakistan. “Similarly, any such illegal, immoral and undemocratic decision by the Parliament itself will be remembered in the worst possible words and Pakistani nation will never forgive the supporters of NRO,” he further said.
The Chief Minister announced that the PML-N had also decided to mobilize public opinion against NRO. Shahbaz Sharif further said that approval of NRO by the Parliament would be an insult to the sacrifices of Pakistani people, media, civil society and political workers, which they had made for the supremacy of justice, defeat of dictatorship and restoration of judiciary. He said that passage of NRO would prove a fatal blow to inherent relation of law and justice for which “our present and future generations will have to pay a heavy cost.”
The Chief Minister said that NRO was a document which devoid of moral, legal and political justification and has been rejected by Pakistani masses from the very beginning. “That is why, even traditional allies of the government are reluctant to ratify it,” he said. Sharif said that being a supreme forum for safeguarding public aspirations, how Parliament could become a party in the implementation of such a discriminatory law, which has been made for some particular people in violation of the Constitution.