ISLAMABAD: No unconstitutional way will be adopted to remove President Pervez Musharraf, Adviser to Prime Minister for Interior Rehman Malik said on Saturday.| Of course, shooting is still constitutional in Pakistain. Or they could insert Perv into a plane crash. Happens all the time. |
Commenting on the lawyers’ movement, he said long march was the first such march in Pakistan’s history, which ended without violence, adding that only 15,000 to 20,000 people took part in the march. “The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is a part of the lawyers movement for judicial restoration. Dozens of its workers have made sacrifices for the cause. PPP leader Israr Shah, who lost his legs in a bomb blast while attending at a reception for sacked chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in July 2007, is participating in the movement. The PPP-led government had released salaries of 29 sacked judges,” he said.
“We will reinstate the judges, but according to the law,” he told AP. “Nothing will be done which could create another constitutional crisis.”
Malik pointed out that a clause to increase the number of Supreme Court judges was inserted into the budget bill to underline the PPP’s commitment to reinstating the sacked judges. “I think people are understanding that we are moving in the right direction,” he said. “We know the aspirations of the nation, we will fulfil them.”