'N' slates PM's remarks
By: Abrar Saeed
Published: February 16, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Monday staged a walkout from National Assembly and marched up to the Constitution Avenue to express solidarity with the lawyers’ fraternity and
judiciary, and vowed not to let the wishes and whims of a 'single person' prevail upon the aspirations of the 170 million masses.
Soon after the culmination of Prime Minister’s address in the National Assembly, PML-N MPs led by Leader of Opposition Ch Nisar Ali Khan, staged a walkout and in the wet weather marched to Constitution Avenue. Talking to media persons there, PML-N senior leaders Makhdoom Javaid Hashmi and Khawaja Saad Rafique said that lawyers community, civil society and 170 million masses were standing behind the judiciary and would not let the rulers intimidate it.
Javaid Hashmi regretted that the elected President Asif Ali Zardari was behaving and acting like a dictator trying to impose his personal wishes and whims on the whole nation.
He said that they would not let this ‘one man show’ prevail in the country and for the supremacy of Parliament and strengthening of all the state organs including judiciary they could go to any extent. He warned the ruling Pakistan People’s Party to refrain from indulging in activities aimed to dismantle the apex judiciary and said that his party could go to any extent to uphold the sanctity of the state institutions and supremacy of Parliament and Constitution.
He grilled Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani for taking the credit of restoring judges through an executive order and that they (judges) would still be requiring ratification from the Parliament to be on their seats.
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