ISLAMABAD, Aug 13: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said some individuals have taken upon themselves to re-write the Constitution disregarding the elected parliament and were seeking to foist perpetual military rule in the name of “sustainable democracy”.

In her message on the country’s Independence Day, Ms Bhutto said the opposition had rejected the perverted logic to foist a new constitution and would continue to oppose and reject it.

She said Pakistan came into being as a country where parliament, supremacy of Constitution, rule of law and respect for human rights were to reign supreme. “It is a sad thought that on this Independence Day we find those ideals and principles stand trampled,” she added.

She said: “Pakistan was supposed to be a state in which every one was equal. Unfortunately, a handful of generals who have seized the state apparatus have placed themselves above the law and the Constitution.”

She said the PPP believed the country could be saved from internal and external dangers only through democracy, respect for the Constitution and rule of law and by adhering to the principle of equality before law.