ISLAMABAD, April 10: Constitutional expert Hafeez Pirzada on Thursday suggested to the signatories of the Bhurban declaration to sort out the issue of the restoration of the pre-emergency judiciary before any doubts are created and compel one of them to declare the much-appreciated agreement a raw deal.

“Time is ripe to consolidate things before the political parties which signed the Bhurban declaration start clamouring that they were not satisfied with the agreement,” Mr Pirzada, one of the framers of the 1973 Constitution, told reporters here at the Supreme Court.

“We are the nation of ostriches as our people have no memories to learn lessons from the past, since similar events are being repeated again and again that form basis of abrogation or deviation from constitutional system of governance,” he feared.

Though Mr Pirzada did not rule out the role of intelligence agencies or any other vested interest in the recent events of Lahore and Karachi, he lamented that lawyers being the most educated class should have the brains not to be exploited.

He was against the concept of ‘countdown’ being followed by the lawyers for the restoration of the judges, saying this was like sword of Damocles hanging over the parliament.

About the status of the deposed judges, Mr Pirzada said the Parliament should be left alone to decide their fate. No one can pressure or force the parliament, otherwise we, he said, as a nation would be slipping towards anarchism.

Meanwhile, PPP Senator Babar Awan stressed the need to launch a ‘Bardashat Karo Tehreek’ (movement for tolerance) rather politics of intolerance.