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Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that courts of the country should act in a way that no one could question their impartiality. In a statement issued from Mansoora on Thursday in backdrop of the government decision to amend the NAB laws, he said the anti-graft body should not be used for political victimization and its laws should be equal for everyone involved in corruption.

"There must not be any discrimination in NAB laws. The elements of fear and harassment in anti-corruption laws should be addressed," he said, adding, the JI, however, was in favour of ruthless accountability system. The JI chief said that NAB so far had failed to prove its impartiality. Those 436 persons who were named in the Panama Papers were moving freely and no one had asked them, he said. Similarly, he added the NAB had not acted against those who were involved in mega scandals. There were 150 files of mega scandals in possession of anti-corruption body, Siraj said.

The JI chief also questioned the plea bargain clause in NAB laws, saying no logical justification of this law could be given. He also expressed concern over Kashmir situation where curfew had entered into 18th day but the world was silently looking the helplessness of Kashmiri people.

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