PESHAWAR, Feb 4: Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has expressed displeasure over the tabling of a motion in the NWFP Assembly against President General Pervez Musharraf's uniform.

Speaking at a public meeting at Kangra, district Charsadda, he said that the move was aimed at creating constitutional crisis in the country because parliament had already settled the issue.

The federal minister said that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had been allowed, through an act of the parliament, to hold the offices of president of Pakistan and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS). He said neither the ARD nor the MMA had raised the issue of uniform during the ongoing Senate session.

He said that it was unfortunate that in NWFP the Peoples Party Parliamentarians had joined hands with other opposition parties to table an anti-uniform motion in the assembly.

He said there was an understanding among the opposition parties in NWFP that they would not take any issue on the floor of the house which would negatively affect any other opposition party. He said PPP parliamentarians committed gross violation of the pledge and by-passed its opposition allies in the NWFP Assembly.

Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, the president of PPP (Sherpao), alleged that the Peoples Party Parliamentarian was hand in glove with MMA government and tabling of anti-uniform motion was an attempt to damage the opposition in NWFP Assembly. He said his party would soon chalk out its own line of action in this regard.

While referring to a Bill moved in NWFP Assembly on Thursday, seeking a ban on women's photos on signboards, Mr Sherpao said it touched an irrelevant issue. He said the MMA Government had forgotten real issues and it was harping on non-issues in order to divert attention the public from actual problems.

He also expressed concern over what he called the deteriorating law and order situation in the province. He alleged that the MMA Government had adopted 'criminal' silence over vital issues of the province.

Mr Sherpao said that incidents, such as kidnapping for ransom, were on the rise but the administration had become silent spectator and failed to curb such crimes. He said the MMA government had miserably failed to evolve policies for addressing the issues like price-spiral and unemployment which had aggravated the soci al and economic conditions of the public.

He criticised the NWFP government for showing least interest in development of the province and welfare of the masses. The MMA government was merely raising hollow slogans, he added.