DUBAI, April 27: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said her party will not accept any compromise on Legal Framework Order (LFO) and will reject any deal made by any other party.
She was talking to her party leaders, senators and members of national and provincial assemblies from Sindh on Sunday while reacting on rumours that MMA is keen to reach an agreement with the government on the LFO.
“We will not accept the LFO or a president who is not elected to his office according to procedure laid down in the constitution,” she reportedly told her party leaders. The gathering turned into a forum of discussion where PPP policies on all major issues were discussed.
Some party leaders from Lahore and Islamabad told the meeting about rumours that the MMA could make a deal if the president agreed to take off his army uniform after a specified time.
“No!” she told her party leaders, “No one has a right to change the constitution. We will stick to our stand and will not go back an inch. We would stay in opposition and will continue our struggle against the LFO.”
Makhdoom Amin Fahim, the leader of the PPP Parliamentarians, who attended negotiations with the government along with leaders of other opposition parties, was also present at the meeting and told his party colleagues about the progress of the talks.
According to Mr Faheem, a committee having representatives of all the parties had been set up and it would start its deliberations from Monday and would discuss the LFO article by article.
Ms Bhutto also discounted any suggestion that the US would bring her in power claiming she opposed all US policies that were contrary to interests of Pakistan and the Muslim world.
“It was the power of people not of the USA that brought us in power and will bring us in power again. We don’t want to come in power through back doors,” she was quoted as saying.
She was optimistic that the present system would not be in place for long and the “coalition of vested interests” would soon collapse.
She said there was no chance of so-called PPPP Patriots to come back in the party and described them as “parasites.” “A crime has to be punished,” she said.
She also warned party leaders that any indiscipline would
cause them their positions in the party.
There were at least 24 women leaders from Sindh who attended the gathering. Some party leaders from Punjab who met her yesterday also attended.
Among those who were present were: Amin Faheem, Raza Rabbani, Naveed Qamar, Nisar Khuro, Altaf Qureshi, Qaim Ali Shah, Aftab Shaban Meerani, Khursheed Shah, Rukhsana Zubairy, Raashid Rabbani, Faarooq Naik, Safdar Abbasi, Yusuf Talpoor, Anwar Beg, Manzoor Wassan, Naheed Khan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Marvi Mazhar and others.
