General Anwar Mansoor tenders resignation

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General Anwar Mansoor tenders resignation

Saturday, 03 Apr, 2010

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan on Friday tendered his resignation citing Law Minister Dr Babar Awan as well as the law ministry’s reticence reasons.

Mansoor said he submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani adding “whether it is accepted or not, I'm not joining”.

“Yes I resigned from my post. Neither the law minister nor the law ministry were cooperating with me,” Mansoor told reporters.

“I needed some documents but they were not providing me.” Responding to a question, he said his sincere advice to the government was “implement the verdict on the NRO.”

The attorney general said that under the constitution the president enjoys the immunity.

However, he denied the statement of Awan in which he had accused judiciary of victimising the PPP leadership and said judiciary is not victimising the government.

He said that neither the president nor the prime minister ever showed their confidence in him.

On Thursday last, Mansoor had stunned a seven-judge Supreme Court bench hearing progress on re-opening of Swiss cases that he was facing non cooperative attitude on part of the law minister for not handing over to him necessary information and communications to complete legal process of sending letters to the Swiss authorities for re-opening $60 million graft cases involving President Asif Ali Zardari.

Senior lawyer and former supreme court judge Tariq Mahmood said Mansoor's resignation as an “embarrassment” for the government.

“The attorney general is the state's lawyer. It is embarrassing for the government that a person who is to defend them in the supreme court is not there,” Mahmood said.—Agencies/DawnNews

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