HYDERABAD, March 20: Sindh People’s Party Parliamentarians chief Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the Legal Framework Order has undermined supremacy of the parliament.

Mr Khuhro accused the government of deceiving the parliamentarians by clandestinely incorporating the LFO in the Constitution.

The PPP leader was talking to journalists at the residence of the party’s deputy general secretary, Maula Bux Chandio, in Qasimabad here on Thursday.

Referring to war against Iraq, he confined himself to opposing it by saying that wars never resolved issues and added that a proper strategy would be devised by the central executive committee of the PPP.

He said that if the package of the constitutional amendments was to be made a part of the Constitution, it should have been brought before the parliament for a discussion.

He said that Illahi Bux Soomro, Pervez Ellahi and Jalal Shah had deceived the members of the assemblies when they announced as the speakers of the national and the provincial assemblies that oath was being taken in accordance with the Constitution that stood before Oct 12, 1999.

He said: “When the assemblies were formed on the basis of a fraud how can they restore real democracy in the country.”

Referring to the deadlock between treasury and combined opposition benches over the LFO in the National Assembly, he said that parliamentarians always found solution of deadlock provided the rulers did not make it point of their prestige.

He said that if sanctity of parliament was upheld then democracy would automatically flourish in the country.

He agreed with a questioner that present level of friendship with the USA and the arrests of Al Qaeda activists from the country could prove to be counter productive.

About violation of party discipline by some MPAs in Senate elections in Sindh, he said that the names mentioned in the press in this regard were speculations but the party was investigating the issue.

He said that the PPP had formed committees which would visit districts of Sindh to investigate into shortcomings of the party at district level.

He said that the committee, comprising Maula Bux Chandio, Dr Ayub Sheikh and Shah Mohammad Shah, would begin its visits with going to Thatta district.

He said that Hyderabad district president of the party, Abdul Sattar Bachani, had been replaced with Syed Muhsin Shah Bukhari.

He said that the action was taken in view of violation of party discipline with regard to distribution of tickets to party candidates.

SECURITY TIGHTENED: Security was tightened in the city on Thursday to avert any untoward incident that might occur in the wake of the attack on Iraq.