Altaf Hussain ,Ishratul Ebad, Rehman Malik, Farooq Sattar beneficiaries of NRO.

KARACHI, November 13, 2009 (Balochistan Times): Sindh government has sent a list of cases withdrawn against 4000 beneficiaries of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) including MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain, Dr Farooq Sattar and several workers of party, PPP leaders, bureaucrats and officers to federal government. Sources told over 3500 cases registered against MQM Quaid Altaf Hussain, governor Sindh Ishrat ul Ibad, federal minister Dr Farooq Sattar, members of coordination committee of MQM were withdrawn under NRO. Like wise list of 83 cases which were registered against PPP provincial minister Agha Siraj, Dr Zulfiqar Mirza, interior minister A Rehman Malik and 200 other persons and later withdrawn under NRO has also been provided to federal government. The bureaucrats against whom cases were dropped under NRO included former secretary Suleman Farooqi, M.B Abbasi, Pir Didar Jan Sarhandi, Younis Dalia, Siraj Shams ud Din and others. It may be recalled that former chief minister Sindh Arbab Rahim had accorded approval to withdrawal of cases against MQM leadership under NRO.

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