KARACHI, Feb 9: All Parties Democratic Movement convener Mehmood Khan Achakzai said here on Saturday that “those who were responsible for the May 12 bloody episode will be made accountable” whenever a constitutional and democratic government came to power in the country.

Mr Achakzai, who is also the chief of the Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, said his party would never forget the mayhem, adding that the culprits would not go unpunished.

He was speaking at a luncheon meeting arranged for APDM leaders by National Workers Party leader Yusuf Mustikhan. Jamaat-i-Islami leader Qazi Husain Ahmed and Jeay Sindh Mahaz chairman Abdul Khaliq Junejo were also present.

Describing the present rulers as usurpers, the APDM leader said the constitution had been decimated and the country was being ruled under a permanent martial law in the shape of the National Security Council.

There was neither law nor order in the country, he said and added that murders, kidnapping for ransom and suicide bombings had become the order of the day.

“Every city of the country has been made hostage by goons to extort money,” he further said.

He said the gravity of the situation could be judged from the fact that a twice-elected prime minister with international repute had been brutally assassinated without considering that she was a woman.

Earlier, when she returned to the country, her convoy was made target in which 150 people were killed, Mr Achakzai said. In the same way, he said that despite his old age Nawab Akbar Bugti was brutally murdered.

He said the situation in Balochistan was no longer a secret as everyone was aware of consequences of the ongoing military operation where people had been subjected to untold sufferings.

Calling the situation of the country alarming and a grave threat to national integrity, the APDM leader stressed the need for immediate removal of the illegal government.

Defending the APDM boycott decision, Mr Achakzai said: “We are of the considered opinion that the present rulers had no legal right to rule the country as they had violated the constitution of the country.”

He said the constitution had been decimated after the imposition of emergency on Nov 3 and sacking of the judges of the supreme court in an unconstitutional manner.

The APDM leader argued that the country was passing through a critical phase and it could be steered out of the present crisis by implementing the APDM’s five-point formula. It included the termination of intelligence agencies’ role in the country’s politics, formation of an interim court comprising representatives of national parties, judges, intellectuals, restoration of the constitution to the position of before Oct 12, 1999, restoration of SC judges and removal of judges who took the oath under the PCO and appointment of a new neutral election commissioner.

He said a silent revolution had begun in the country, adding that the APDM would continue its struggle till the ouster of the present rulers.

Mr Achakzai also condemned the decision of the Karachi authorities of not allowing the APDM to hold its rally at the Nishtar Park on Sunday.

NWP leaders Yusuf Mustikhan, advocate Akhtar Husain, Usman Baloch and Nisar Baloch of the Labour Party also spoke.

Earlier, the meeting adopted various resolutions which were presented by Iqbal Haider of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

The meeting condemned the authorities for not allowing APDM to hold a rally in Nishtar Park and entry of Imran into Sindh. In another resolution the meeting slammed the government for not allowing a lawyers’ convention on the SC premises and termed the recent appointments of judges illegal.