PESHAWAR, July 17: The Pakistan Muslim League, NWFP, on Tuesday rejected the proposed constitutional amendment packages, stating that only an elected parliament had the legal right to amend the Constitution.

A meeting of the NWFP PML executive council, presided over by its provincial president, Pir Sabir Shah, criticized the proposed packages and termed the process a mechanism of imposing rule of an individual on the country.

The participants criticized the Political Parties Order and said that the military government had no authority to direct political parties to hold polls for their office-bearers.

They demanded release of PML leaders, including Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan, Javed Hashmi and Javed Iqbal Abbasi, and alleged that the leaders were falsely implicated in corruption cases to force them to leave the party.

The meeting asked the government to stop its operation in North and South Waziristan and release former National Assembly member Javed Ibraheem Paracha.

Sabir Shah said that the proposed amendments would badly hit Pakistan as a federation and they would turn the parliament into a rubber stamp.

He said an individual could not be permitted to mutilate the Constitution.

PML Secretary-General Saranjam Khan was also present.