LAHORE, March 1: MMA Chairman Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani says supremacy of the Constitution and parliament can’t be established unless the Legal Framework Order is thrown out.

“If the LFO is tagged with the Constitution, the supremacy will be that of the LFO, not parliament’s”, he said while talking to reporters at the residence of JUP leader Pir Ijaz Hashmi on Saturday.

He insisted that only parliament was competent to amend the Constitution and no individual had any authority to do so.

He demanded that the ruling party should submit the LFO to parliament and leave it to the legislators which amendments to adopt or reject.

He said in the presence of the LFO the political system in vogue could be anything but democracy.

The MMA chief is due to arrive in Karachi on Sunday to lead the million men march against the threatened US attack on Iraq.

Maulana Noorani alleged that the US wanted to divide Iraq into three parts comprising Shias, Kurds and Baghdad and accusations that the Islamic country possessed weapons of mass destruction were aimed at justifying the invasion.

The MMA chief said weapons Iraq was being accused of having in its arsenals were also available to other countries, including Israel and Brazil. Similarly, he said, these were the very same which the US had been supplying to Iraq in the past.

Maulana Noorani said Iraq had not used its weapons against any country while the US had killed hundreds of thousands of people in Japan long ago. As a matter of principle, he said, disarmament of the US should have been given priority.

He denounced the attitude of Islamic countries viz-a-viz the US threats, saying all of them were cowardly, apologetic.

Referring to the just concluded NAM conference in Kuala Lumpur, he said it was regrettable that in the presence of the prime minister, Pakistan was represented by “someone” who had not got even a single vote.