LAHORE, May 29: The Joint Action Committee for Peoples Rights has condemned the dictatorial attitude of the Punjab government towards the opposition, journalists and political workers protesting against the Legal Framework Order.

The JAC said at a meeting, presided over by Shataj Qazalbash, that the provincial government should have adopted a policy of tolerance under the present circumstances and allowed its opponents to express their difference of opinion on the LFO.

The government had, however, preferred to harass its opponents by beating and torturing them and behaved in an undemocratic manner. JAC described the LFO as an instrument of the negation of the sovereignty of parliament and demanded its repeal.

It was of the view that Gen Pervez Musharraf had no moral justification for holding the offices of the president and the chief of army staff simultaneously. He had got himself elected as president through a referendum in an unconstitutional manner. — Reporter