HYDERABAD, June 2: Pakistan Awami Tehrik MNA Dr Tahirul Qadri has proposed that controversial points of the Legal Framework Order should be reviewed and the LFO be presented in parliament for approval.
Talking to journalists at the residence of the PAT divisional leader, Musharraf Ali Shah, in Latifabad on Monday, he said that amendments regarding independence of judiciary, provincial autonomy, powers vested in president under article 58(2)b and structure of the National Security Council should be reviewed.
He said that the MMA and the government had worked out a formula to settle the row over the LFO. There were certain points in the LFO which even the MMA would not want to be removed, he added.
When asked whether the MMA had struck a deal with the government, he said that extension of deadline to President Gen Pervez Musharraf regarding his uniform by the MMA created doubts about a deal and added that it also smacked of an ‘arranged war’ between the MMA and government.
He said that the NSC should be made an advisory or consultative body instead of having a look of supra-constitutional body and it should be made part of the constitution. He said that issues like nuclear technology, law and order, defence and foreign policy, Kashmir and tribal areas should be given under its domain for discussion.
He maintained that their country needed an independent judiciary which was free of any interference by the president or the prime minister.
Dr Qadri further said that issues of removal of superior court judges, their retirement and promotion should also be discussed in the parliament.
Expressing his reservations over constitutional posts of chairmen, National Accountability Bureau, National Reconstruction Bureau and the chief election commissioner, he said that such points should be brought under discussion in parliament.
He deplored that the opposition and the government did not discuss issues of Shariat and provincial autonomy in their negotiations. He advocated provincial autonomy and called for making Quran and Sunnah supreme law of the country. He also demanded empowerment of the Senate.
The PAT chief said that not only the LFO was silent about provincial autonomy and but the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal also did not raise the issue in seven points it presented to the government for negotiations.
