BANNU, March 17: People’s Party Parliamentarians’ MNA Naheed Khan has said that lawlessness has become the order of the day. People are desperate to bring about a change in the country.

“A uniformed employee says that he would do whatever he likes, without caring for any moral, social or constitutional obligations,” the PPP leader said while speaking at the district convention of the party here on Saturday.

PPP provincial president Rahimdad Khan and other leaders were also present on the occasion. Ms Khan said the government was subjecting political leaders and workers of the opposition to torture, but the rulers were holding public meetings and workers and leaders of the ruling party had been given free hand to do whatever they liked.

She claimed that the days of Gen Musharraf’s government were numbered as it had lost its writ. Even the judiciary had been made a laughing stock and judges forced to beg for justice, the PPP leader said.

“Not even the judiciary, but other segments of society, including journalists, are protesting against the high-handedness of the government,” Ms Khan said, adding that general had brought the country on the brink of disaster. She said the baton-charge on a lawyers’ convention in Lahore was a shameless act, adding that it was the worst example of use of brute force and “state terrorism.”