Reconciliation won’t spare accountability: Hashmi
Bureau Report

KARACHI—Leader of the PML-N, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has said that political reconciliation does not mean to spare someone form accountability.
While talking to the Private TV Channel here at the residence of the Vice President PML-N Sindh chapter, Tariq Khan, he said that political reconciliation does not mean to let someone free from accountability; however, political parties can solve the process of accountability by sitting together, he added.
He said that to attain any portfolio is not the sole mission of politics. He further said that he himself reject offer to hold any office as he does not want to take oath from a President.
Javed Hashmi said that Judges are free and this worked would reach to its end when Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will be the Chief Justice of Pakistan. In response to a question regarding the Reconciliation and reservations with MQM he said that reconciliation is inevitable for the supremacy of constitution but it is impossible to spare someone of accountability.
Central Secretary General Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Jhangir Badar has said that the PPP would take all Political Parties inside or outside the Parliament alongwith it for solution of all problem being faced by citizens of the country.
The consensus among Political Parties was aimed to solve challenges being faced by the nation, he said this while talking to Online at Wilma ceremony of nephew of Member Central Executive Committee PPP Sardar Ali of Pabbi on Sunday.
He said that the National Assembly made history in tenure of PPP by adopting unanimous resolution reposing confidence in Prime Minister syed Yousaf Raza Gilani. It was result of efforts and policies of Co-Chairman PPP Asif Ali Zardari that the treasury and opposition reposed their confidence in the Prime Minister, he maintained. The mean reason behind consensus between PPP and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to ensure maintenance of trade activities in Karachi as well as to redress problem of Sindh, he pointed out.
Answering to a question, Secretary General PPP Jhangir Badar said that neither any talks with regard to power sharing with MQM is underway nor consensus between both parties was aimed to retain post of Governor ship for MQM. He thanked MQM for its unconditional support to PPP.
The Pakistan Peoples Party has welcomed the announcement that orders had been issued to recall hundreds of serving military officers, NCOs and other ranks from civil departments as “step in the right direction”.
“The recall order will be hailed by all the democratic elements to the extent to which it is seen as implementing the Prime Minister’s policy statement in the Parliament to separate the army from the civil and demilitarize the society in accordance with the established democratic principles,” said PPP spokesperson former Senator Farhatullah Babar in a statement on Sunday.