PPP demands holding of new election in country
PPP demands holding of new election in country
Zafar Ahmed Khan
PakistanToday in News - 1

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has demanded that the federal government should resign and hold new election in the country. This selected federal government has failed to deliver in good way, said PPP senior leader and Former Chairman Senate senator Mian Raza Rabbani.

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has demanded that the federal government should resign and hold new election in the country. This selected federal government has failed to deliver in good way, said PPP senior leader and Former Chairman Senate senator Mian Raza Rabbani.

He said that invoking of article 149 would be the first step towards separation of Karachi from Sindh.

Raza Rabbani said that bad governance has led to worst economic condition in Pakistan. The federal government’s move to take Karachi under its control would beillegal and unconstitutional, Rabbani said.

While addressing to a press conference on Friday along with Sindh Minister for Information Saeed Ghani at Committee room in Sindh Assembly, senator Mian Raza Rabbani said that the people of the province will not let anybody divide Sindh. Any such move on government’s part would be dangerous for the country.

He said that Government has faced severe backlash from PPP after Law Minister Farogh Naseem said the centre can take Karachi under its direct control by invoking Article 147.

Rabbani said that after the approval of the 18th Amendment, the provincial autonomy could not be obstructed. By approving the 18th Amendment, Parliament had given a clear message that federal units have their own rights, he added.

Raza Rabbani said under clause 2 of the article 149, the federal government had the authority to intervene in a province’s internal matters before the approval of the Eighteenth Amendment. However, with the approval of the Eighteenth Amendment the federal government had no such authority, he clarified.

Rabbani said that now under Article 149 a provincial government could only be instructed, while practically nothing could be done.

Former Chairman Senate said that the purpose of passing the 18th Amendment was to stop whatever was wrong in the past. He said he would never allow anyone to rollback the Eighteenth Amendment.

Raza Rabbani said that such tplanners lived in the paradise of fools. He said that Pakistan could not afford the further instability. For God sake do not let the linguistic affairs open out, if its flames spreaded the whole country would suffer, he added.

Rabbani said the federal government did not had a two-thirds majority, so it could abolish the Eighteenth Amendment. He said the main element of the country’s constitution was the parliamentary system which was not easy to be eliminated.

Former Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani said that Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in his speech provided an analysis of how the leadreship of the PPP strengthened the federation and the country even at the cost of their lives.

He made it clear that there was no clause in the Charter of Democracy under which it was stated that there would be an agreement with the MQM as well. The federal Minister Farogh Naseem said in his statement that the federation under article 149 looking to run the mega city and financial hub of country Karachi from Islamabad, he highlighted.

PM Imran Niazi wanted to run Karachi from Islamabad, said Rabbani, adding that people of would not allow anyone to strategically control on Karachi and run it from Federal.

Raza Rabbani warned the federal government to stop creating constitutional crises after economical crises in Pakistan. PPP will fully resist if anyone tried to rollback the 18th amendment. Former chairman senate cited.

Information Minister Saeed Ghani said that the Karachi committee that the Prime Minister had recently constituted must also work under the constitution. He said that efforts were being made to move the country towards the presidential system.

Saeed Ghani said that various TV channels showed specific parts of Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s speech under special agenda.

Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani said that Sindh government could resolve all the issues which the federal government wanted to do using Article 149. An impression being given by the federal government that it wanted to take over the provincial headquarter of Sindh was not welcoming at all, he clarified.