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ISLAMABAD: Describing the act of taking the memo issue to the Supreme Court “a conspiracy against the parliament,” Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said the parliament should complete its tenure.
“The parliament should complete its tenure, not the government, not the prime minister. We are not interested. We are better off even to sit in opposition, if there is an opposition,” Gilani told Senate while responding to various points raised by a number of Senators.
The prime minister said that after the emergence of memogate issue he summoned Hussain Haqqani and sought his resignation in presence of the President, the Chief of Army Staff and DG ISI, for a fair trial, and referred the matter to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security.
“Then it (the memo issue) was taken to the Supreme Court. I have no objection. But it is a conspiracy against the parliament. The President along with the National Assembly and the Senate is part of the parliament,” he added.
The prime minister regretted that the memo issue, which was created by Mansoor Ijaz, a person with no credibility and having a background of even writing against the country's important institutions and the establishment, was being taken to the court to reach the person who got it written. “You can think what the motive behind it,” he remarked.
“This is a conspiracy against the parliament. What do they want to achieve, what do they want to prove?” Gilani said and recalled that once former prime minister Soharwardi told his (Gilani's) father that he was being pushed to the wall and it would lead to the country's break-up and it happened when Sheikh Mujeeb-ur-Rehman took over the reigns of party.
Gilani said in the past leaders like Maulana Maudoodi, Wali Khan and Nawab Akbar Bugti were called traitors. “But now this practice should be shunned. God forbid if it is repeated, things can go wrong.”
Gilani said the parliament, the media, the civil society and the world would not accept dictatorship. “We want democracy in the country,” he added.
Furthermore the prime minister claimed that there was a parliamentarian still in touch with the central character of the memogate scandal, Mansoor Ijaaz.
“I know the person in touch but don’t wan to name him. But again it is a conspiracy against the parliament” said the prime minister.
