March 10, 2003	Monday	Muharram 6, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, March 9: National Assembly member Naheed Khan, political secretary of Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto, said on Sunday that there was no question of the PPP accepting the Legal Framework Order in its present form as part of the Constitution.

She said she was bewildered at the statement of the leader of the parliamentary party of Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam), Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, justifying the holding of president’s office by an army chief on the ground that he wore Pakistani military uniform and not Indian. “Such insensitive remarks betrayed either the PML-Q leader’s own intelligence level or the regard he had for the intelligence of the common man,” she said in a statement.

She said that the Supreme Court on the issue of referendum had left the consequences to be determined at the appropriate forum of parliament at the appropriate time.

As such, unless the LFO was taken up by parliament and ratified as constitutional amendment in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Constitution, it could not be regarded as its valid part, she said.

She termed the LFO a corrupt document sought to be appended to the Constitution to corrupt the basic law of the land.