Can anyone still call PPP ‘pro-democracy’? liberal? or concerned with anything but haram khori?
PPP grabs powers to grant ‘prosecution immunity’ amid opposition protest - Pakistan - DAWN.COM
Amid a full-throated opposition protest, the Pakistan Peoples Party managed to get passed a key amendment bill in the Sindh Assembly on Friday, empowering its government to “withdraw from the prosecution” of any person being tried by any court before the final judgement of the case, or cases, against him/her…
…The government inserted a new section, Section 9-A, in the Sindh Criminal Prosecution Service (Constitution, functions and powers) Act 2009 through which it empowered the prosecutor general — a lawyer appointed by the provincial government — to issue guidelines not only to his subordinate prosecutors but also to “officers responsible for investigation” for effective and efficient prosecution.
…Under Section 9-A(e), the government empowered a prosecutor to “withdraw, with the consent of the Court, from the prosecution of any person either generally or in respect of anyone or more of the offences for which he is being tried”…