HYDERABAD, Aug 25: Fo-rmer Supreme Court judge Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid has said that an entirely new leadership is required to pay attention to genuine issues of society where social divide is increasing. Otherwise, he added, the same lot of feudal lords and industrialists will return to parliament.

He said not only President Pervez Musharraf but civilian governments of Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif also did nothing for the common man.

He was addressing a one-day conference on “protection of rights of vulnerable children” organised by Society for Protection and of Rights of Child (SPARC) at a local hotel here on Saturday. He dwelt at length on issues involving democracy, present government and child rights.

He said the moot point is that whether presidential re-election from present assemblies, return of Sharif brothers and Benazir Bhutto, restoration of so-called democracy had anything to do with people’s issues.

He came down hard on prime minister Shaukat Aziz and said he wanted to be prime minister in every future government which was quite ridiculous.

He said, lawyers’ movement has made a brief stopover in its struggle as its destination is far way. He asked whether after polls, streams of milk and honey would flow in the country?

About prime minister’s statement for average income of Rs60,000 per annum, he said, it reflects as if a 5-member family of a hari will earn Rs0.3 million annually. “Is it not a dream as it has got nothing to do with reality”, he said as he rejected premier’s statement that economic growth wise Pakistan stood at No-2.