LARKANA, Dec 11: Legislators of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal have demanded that the government should provide security to People's Party Parliamentarians leader Asif Ali Zardari.

Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Sindh MMA president MNA Maulana Asadullah Bhutto, flanked by MNAs Abdul Sattar Afghani and Mohammad Hassan Mahnati and MPAs Mohammad Younis Barai and Nasrullah Shahi, said Mr Zardari's release would assist in the campaign against the president's uniform.

Maulana Bhutto deplored the poor state of law and order in Sindh and said even judges were not safe.

He said the governor and the home minister should resign because they had failed to ensure recovery of the kidnapped judges and other people.

About the president's uniform, the MNA said under the 17th constitutional amendment, Gen Pervez Musharraf had to shed his uniform by Dec 31.

He termed the National Security Council unconstitutional and said that was the reason the leader of the opposition and the NWFP chief minister were not attending its meetings.