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| PML-N calls for end to army's role in politics |
| 2005-12-23 |
| The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has urged lawyers, political parties and people to join hands to launch a movement to end the military’s role in politics, restore democracy and demand general elections under an independent election commission. Addressing a function in connection with the birthdays of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Mian Nawaz Sharif at the Lahore High Court Bar Association on Thursday, PML-N leaders said the government was creating a 1971-like situation in the country by re-launching military operation in Balochistan and taking up Kalabagh Dam without a national consensus. PML-N Secretary General Zafar Iqbal Jhagra said that military rulers had made the parliament a rubber stamp and were using it for their nefarious designs. He said the parliament had no constitutional value under a military ruler. SCBA President Justice (r) Qayyum Malik said a sincere leadership could help achieve the goal of democracy. He said the military was not made to rule the country, but to defend it. ANP leader Ehsan Wyne said that those who seized power at gunpoint had no regard for democratic norms. MNA Pervaiz Malik said the struggle against the military dictatorship would continue, adding that the Kalabagh Dam issue should be resolved through a national consensus. |
| Posted by:Fred |