KARACHI, Oct 3: Ghinwa Bhutto, chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party (Shaheed Bhutto), says the country is in a state of “undeclared civil disobedience” and is increasingly becoming difficult to govern.

Expressing these views in a Dawn Dialogue interview in Karachi, she emphasized the need to shun narrow nationalism and overcome centrifugal tendencies that had cropped up because of the growing mistrust between provinces and various groups.

The country was becoming increasingly difficult to govern, and people were cooperating less and less with any government, civil or military, she said.

Commenting on the ongoing political deadlock, Ms Ghinwa Bhutto said this was because of compromises that were not very clear to anybody. No discussion about the Constitution was taking place openly on the floor of parliament, she said.

She supported the idea of holding fresh elections if the present elected parliament failed to find a way out of the current impasse.

Ms Ghinwa Bhutto stressed that asking Gen Pervez Musharraf to take off his uniform was not going to ensure supremacy of parliament. Having a civilian head of government had not previously ensured parliamentary supremacy, and elected governments had been dismissed by civilian presidents with the approval of the army.

Ms Ghinwa Bhutto also ruled out any reconciliation with the PPP led by Benazir Bhutto.

“There is no basis for reconciliation,” she said, adding that “the problem with the other party is that they have stopped being the people’s party. Their interests now are totally entangled with the interests of the higher class or the class of the feudals and industrialists.”