ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief coordinator Ahsan Iqbal has said the question concerning Legal Framework Order as well as that of the president’s uniform relates to the federation and future of the country.

In a statement issued here on Sunday, he said giving recognition to Gen Musharraf meant that his policies on Kashmir, Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq and on nuclear issues be affirmed. Any compromise on these issues will tantamount to playing with the future of the country, he added.

Mr Iqbal said on the one hand, some political parties had declared Pervez Musharraf as a danger to Islam and Pakistan but on the other they were determined to appointing him president for a tenure of five year.

The PML-N leader said people were fully conscious and as such they understood the politics of contradictions.

He said in the light of the last 55 years, his party had decided that without ousting the army from politics, the country could not be put on the path of stability.

Mr Ahsan Iqbal said the forces hostile to Pakistan were desirous of making the army a controversial institution by involving it in political affairs.

Mr Ahsan Iqbal said the generals should learn a lesson from Turkey’s experience where despite the army’s constitutional role, it was being kept away from power thereby ensuring the supremacy of the Parliament.

He said, unfortunately, President General Pervez Musharraf was weakening the Constitutional organs of the state with a view to prolonging his rule. The objective is that he will not face threat from any side, he added.

He said the judiciary had deteriorated completely while the morale of civil administration weakened. The Parliament has been reduced to “a rubber stamp”, he added.

Mr Iqbal said Gen Musharraf was hesitating to shun his uniform for the reason that he did not want to become Sikandar Mirza and Ayub Khan who were deprived of power by the commanders- in-chief at gunpoint.