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HYDERABAD, July 14: The central committee member, Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP), Imdad Qazi has said that the appointment of the National Security Council was in fact a ploy to enforce the supremacy of the army on a permanent basis.
He said this while addressing party workers at the central secretariat of the party on Sunday.
Responding to the televised speech of President Pervez Musharraf, Mr Qazi said that the inclusion of the leader of the opposition in the National Security Council was “just a sugar-coated pill”.
He pointed out that equal representation was given to the army generals in the security council who were not the elected representatives of the people but their servants.
He said supreme power and mandate could not be given to the servants.
He pointed out that President Pervez Musharraf was implementing his own agenda as from day one he had been talking about a government based on the Turkish model.
Mr Qazi maintained that the elected parliament alone had the authority to amend the Constitution.
He urged the ARD to expand the alliance and announce a programme against unemployment, price hike, and de-nationalization of state enterprises, and launch a campaign for the appointment of an interim government comprising the retired judges of the Supreme Court.
He said the people were not prepared to support those movements which stood for the status quo.
STPP: The Sindh Taraqqi Passand Party (STPP) has said that to authorize the National Security Council to dissolve the assemblies and to dismiss the prime minister was tantamount to imposing a permanent military rule on the country.
Responding to the televised speech of President Pervez Musharraf, a spokesmen of the STPP, in a statement issued on Sunday, said that the step was against democracy and the interest of the oppressed nations.
Rejecting the proposal, he said that, in fact, the establishment wanted to maintain its stranglehold on the affairs of the country through a remote control.
He said that according to the new plan, the actual power would be in the hands of the National Security Council and the actual rulers would not be the people but the establishment.
ANP: The provincial leaders of the Awami National Party, Qamoos Gul Khattak, Asmatullah Khan Mehsood, and Sultan Khan Mandokhl, in a joint statement, have said that the constitutional package announced by President Pervez Musharraf was unilateral and aimed at enforcing a unitary form of government on the people.
They feared that this would create political instability, anarchy, and a sense of deprivation among the people of the smaller provinces.
They regretted that the rulers had learnt no lesson from history and were trying to strengthen themselves in the name of a strong centre.
They demanded that all unilateral decisions should be withdrawn.
They said that instead of opening a pandora’s box, the constitutional amendments should be left to the elected parliament.
