* PPP co-chairman says Benazir sacrificed her life for democracy, not to make Chaudhry the CJP
* Coalition parties will be consulted regarding nomination of future president
* NRO has no importance
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that he would decide when the judges sacked on November 3, 2007 would be reinstated, Dawn News reported.
Talking to senior journalists and columnists at Punjab Governor’s House, he said the judicial crisis was one of the major problems Pakistan was facing and that no one could assess the situation better than he could.
“[Benazir Bhutto] did not sacrifice her life to make Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry the chief justice, but for democracy,” he said, adding that the freedom of judiciary involved the entire system and not just one man. “We know better the importance of strengthening the institutions.”
He said his party had some differences with its coalition partners at the centre and in the provinces, but added that the PPP wanted to “take the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) along”.
Political differences were “routine matter”, he said, adding: “We have yet to sort out some difference with the MQM for which a dialogue process is under way.”
According to the state-run APP news agency, Zardari said President Pervez Musharraf was an “unconstitutional president” and the PPP did not accept his November 3, 2007 measure as legal. But he said the ruling coalition parties lacked the required parliamentary strength to impeach Musharraf and added that the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had reservations in this regard.
Future president: “All ruling coalition parties will be consulted regarding the nomination of future president,” he added. Dawn News said he denied that he wanted to be the president. He said no other party was as experienced as the PPP in the politics of agitation, but added that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had won Pakistan’s independence through dialogue.
“I was arrested from this Governor’s House in 1996 and I addressed a large public meeting yesterday (Monday) at this very place, and I believe in this way of political revenge,” he said.
The PPP co-chairman said Benazir used to say ‘democracy is the best revenge’. “We will follow her and take revenge from anti-democratic forces through democracy.”
NRO: Zardari said the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) had not benefited only the PPP, but “thousands of other people”, and that it had no importance. Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was also present on the occasion. daily times monitor/app
I will decide when judges will be reinstated: Zardari
* PPP co-chairman says Benazir sacrificed her life for democracy, not to make Chaudhry the CJP
* Coalition parties will be consulted regarding nomination of future president
* NRO has no importance
LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday that he would decide when the judges sacked on November 3, 2007 would be reinstated, Dawn News reported.
Talking to senior journalists and columnists at Punjab Governor’s House, he said the judicial crisis was one of the major problems Pakistan was facing and that no one could assess the situation better than he could.
“[Benazir Bhutto] did not sacrifice her life to make Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry the chief justice, but for democracy,” he said, adding that the freedom of judiciary involved the entire system and not just one man. “We know better the importance of strengthening the institutions.”
He said his party had some differences with its coalition partners at the centre and in the provinces, but added that the PPP wanted to “take the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) along”.
Political differences were “routine matter”, he said, adding: “We have yet to sort out some difference with the MQM for which a dialogue process is under way.”
According to the state-run APP news agency, Zardari said President Pervez Musharraf was an “unconstitutional president” and the PPP did not accept his November 3, 2007 measure as legal. But he said the ruling coalition parties lacked the required parliamentary strength to impeach Musharraf and added that the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had reservations in this regard.
Future president: “All ruling coalition parties will be consulted regarding the nomination of future president,” he added. Dawn News said he denied that he wanted to be the president. He said no other party was as experienced as the PPP in the politics of agitation, but added that Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had won Pakistan’s independence through dialogue.
“I was arrested from this Governor’s House in 1996 and I addressed a large public meeting yesterday (Monday) at this very place, and I believe in this way of political revenge,” he said.
The PPP co-chairman said Benazir used to say ‘democracy is the best revenge’. “We will follow her and take revenge from anti-democratic forces through democracy.”
NRO: Zardari said the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) had not benefited only the PPP, but “thousands of other people”, and that it had no importance. Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was also present on the occasion. daily times monitor/app
