RAWALPINDI, March 15: Former senator Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said fresh elections after the exit of General Musharraf would rid the country of the constitutional crisis created due to inclusion of the Legal Framework Order (LFO) into the 1973 Constitution.

Talking to reporters at the Accountability Court here, where he had come to attend the hearing in the SGS and ARY Gold cases, the former senator predicted that the present assembly would be sent packing in a very short period.

However, he was happy that after the National Assembly, the issue of Legal Framework Order was also raised in the Senate and the members had agitated against inclusion of the controversial amendments in the 1973 Constitution.

The party’s Secretary General Raja Pervez Ashraf, Qazi Sultan Mahmood, Sardar Khalid and Ismail Dehri accompanied Mr Zardari.

Talking about the performance of the government, he said it was not running efficiently due to wrong suggestions of the advisers.

Printing money and the claims of $10 billion foreign reserves won’t stabilise the economy, he added.

He said the incident of September 11 had changed the shape of the world equally affecting Pakistan. “Had the events of September 11 not taken place, President Pervez Musharraf would not have been controlling the reigns of power,” he observed.

About the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), he said the institution had lost its credibility and respect in the public eye, as it was also pursuing a political charter.