ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) on Thursday asked the government that no institution of the country had the authority to amend the Constitution.

A PML-N spokesman in a statement on Thursday demanded of the government to go back to barracks and take its agenda of reforms with it.

The military leaders should rather try to reform the military institutions concerned with the sale and purchase of arms, he added. The spokesman said the 1973 Constitution was adopted unanimously by a democratically elected parliament.

Recalling that it had taken 26 long years to build consensus of all federating units on the Constitution, he said if the Musharraf regime made this Constitution controversial, it would be impossible to again forge a consensus on a new Constitution.

He said that after eliminating all signs of democracy in the country, the government was now trying to make the Constitution controversial by an amendment that would subordinate the parliament to a heavily militarized National Security Council.

The spokesman said the Constitution had always been a thorn in the eyes of the armed forces as indicated by the fact that every military government had tried to experiment with it.

He claimed that the fallout of the Musharraf government’s reforms had now become visible.

He said National Reconstruc-tion Bureau (NRB) chairman Tanvir Naqvi was taking the country back to the dark ages where the rule of “might is right” reigned supreme.

He said that with his so-called devolution plan, Mr Naqvi had confused the entire nation and now wanted to end the national cohesion by making the constitution controversial.