LAHORE, Jan 11: The Workers Party Pakistan (WPP) has said the Supreme Court's preliminary order in the NRO calls for caution on the part of legislature, administrative and judicial branches of the state to protect the political process which is feared to be interrupted as has happened too many times in the past.

The WPP has warned that if restraint is not exercised and confrontation is fomented then both the fragile democracy and the federation itself could be subjected to potentially disastrous pressures.

WPP President Abid Hasan Minto and information secretary Aasim Sajjad said that tensions between the elected government and the higher judiciary had been simmering soon after the February 2008 election.

It is unfortunate that sections of the media and some political forces have been trying to sensationalise the matter which stands to benefit only the anti-democratic forces that have historically dominated Pakistani politics, he said.