ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari deflected the blame regarding the fictitious accounts – allegedly used for money laundering – and placed it on private banks.
In an interview with a private television channel on Thursday, the former president expressed that the authorities will have to prove that he went to open fictitious bank accounts, only then can a case be registered against him.
‘By and large, I have an understanding of the law. Every other day surfaces a milkman or a sweetmeat seller, and money is found in their accounts,” he observed.
Zardari said if it is established that he got the accounts opened, then a case could be lodged against him, however, hastened to add that he could still ‘defend’ himself.
‘But that too I can defend telling them, ‘Yes, I deposited money in his account, it is my choice’,” Zardari noted.
Advice to PM Imran Khan
When asked about the much talked about National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and the prime minister’s recent speech that ‘no corrupt person will get an NRO’, Zardari quipped that PM Imran Khan has a habit of saying things.
When the host remarked: “[Has he] gone too far and said too much?”, Zardari responded that the prime minister is habitual of saying too much.
“We had told him to behave like an executive and to desist from opposition politics and let us worry about the opposition,” Zardari added.
