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| April 16, 2003 | Wednesday | Safar 13, 1424 |
Nisar warns of crisis if NA is dissolved
ISLAMABAD, April 15: PML-N Parliamentary leader Chaudhry Nisar on Tuesday warned of serious consequences if the National Assembly was dissolved.
“If the National Assembly is dissolved, many other things would also go with the dissolution of National Assembly,” said Chaudhry Nisar while talking to reporters at Parliament House here.
He said the opposition was ready to cooperate with the government only if proceedings of the National Assembly were conducted under the 1973 Constitution.
“We accepted the formation of a government which came into being through ‘rigged elections’, but we will not tolerate the National Assembly being run without rules and regulations,” he declared.
He said Gen Zia had also introduced some wrong amendments to the Constitution and formed a government of his choice and preferred to be in uniform till the end but he did all these things with the approval of the two-thirds majority of parliament.
Chaudhry Nisar said that the opposition was ready for talks with the government as it had never closed its doors but alleged that the Jamali administration had changed its stance all the time.
He deplored that the present government was ignoring directives of the Supreme Court calling for the restoration of democracy.
He claimed that the opposition was united on the issue of LFO.
PPP leader Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that the opposition was not ready to negotiate the LFO issue with the government because the government had shown no flexibility on it.
“The opposition would be forced to change its stand if the government tried to bulldoze opposition’s viewpoint about the LFO,” he said.
He alleged that the government was trying to create a split by employing the policy of divide and rule.
Mr Qureshi was of the view that the current session of the National Assembly was illegal because the government was bound to call a joint session of parliament under the Article 56(3) of the Constitution which should be addressed by President Pervez Musharraf.
To a question, he said the present situation was heading towards a grave crisis and the opposition had convened a meeting on April 18 to finalize arrangements for a round table conference on the LFO.
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed of the JUI-F said that the government, by claiming that the MMA had accepted a 21-point agenda, had endorsed that the LFO was a controversial issue.
He said the government and armed forces would be responsible if any harm was done to parliament.
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