Karachi: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said he will personally ensure that judges of Pakistan’s superior judiciary are offered no preferential treatment and are held accountable.

Bilawal, who is also the Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), made the announcement to this effect while addressing a seminar at the auditorium of the Sindh Assembly to mark the Golden Jubilee of the 1973 Constitution.

Bilawal said that he would personally move an amendment to allow the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to hold accountable the judges of the superior judiciary.

The amendment will be presented in accordance with the principle of “Equality before the law” enshrined in the Constitution.

He said the judiciary should be covered under the national accountability law for ensuring the existence of the NAB.

He told the audience that accountability should be held in the case of both serving and retired judges as corrupt practices had been taking place everywhere in Pakistan.

He said the PPP always opposed the notion that any institution in the country was given preferential treatment under the laws of the land while considering it a “holy cow”.

He praised the democratic services of former prime minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who gave the gift of a consensus constitution to the people in 1973 as per the democratic basis of Pakistan.

Bilawal said that the 1973 Constitution provided the democratic, federal and Islamic basis of Pakistan.

He said that the constitution also defined the fundamental rights of every citizen and also acted as a guarantor to ensure that the same was available to every Pakistani.

He lamented that since its adoption in 1973, the constitution had constantly come under attack to distort it so that the basic rights of the people remained unfulfilled.

The Foreign Minister urged all the state institutions and political forces to work jointly after shunning their mutual differences to overcome the serious public issues of poverty, hunger, unemployment, inflation, and other economic woes in the country.