November 30, 2007	Friday	Ziqa’ad 19, 1428

QUETTA, Nov 29: Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, chief of his own faction of the Jamhoori Watan Party, has said that President Pervez Musharraf is unacceptable even as a civilian president.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, he said that the oath taken by Gen Musharraf as a civilian president was a mockery of the Constitution and the rule of law.

He said that Gen Musharraf had got elected himself in uniform and was now forcing people to accept him as a civilian head of the state.

He said that Gen Musharraf imposed a state of emergency and deposed the judges of the superior courts only to take the oath as a civilian president through extra-constitutional methods.

He said that it was the responsibility of opposition parties to challenge the autocratic ruler to protect democratic rights of people.

He alleged that the regime had detained thousands of people, including lawyers and political activists, and the oppressive methods of the government could not suppress the political movement of the people.