PML-N says all but one formula not acceptable

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Thursday said that their party would never accept a formula for reinstatement of deposed judges sans foremr chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. “We would not accept reinstatement of deposed judges if chief justice is excluded,” senior minister and PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar told reporters at the Parliament House.
He said PML-N demands restoration of all deposed judges on the positions they had before November 3 last year, without consideration of personal liking or disliking. “We are committed to execute 100-day plan announced by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani during his first speech; and it is above the board that the reinstatement of deposed judges is top most priority of the plan,” Chaudhry Nisar said.
Commenting on incidents of violence in Karachi on Wednesday, the PML-N leader said, “every one knows who could be behind such incidents in the city.” Another senior PML-N leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said the PML-N has achieved a heavy mandate on the basis of promise of restoration of deposed judges and it could not backtrack.
He also stressed that exclusion of justice Iftikhar Chaudhry from restoration move would be unacceptable to the party. “This is the strongest parliament in the history of Pakistan and would prove its strength by reinstating the deposed judges,” he said.
Javed Hashmi termed the incidents violence in Karachi as last-ditch efforts to destabilize the newly formed democratic government and said an investigation would be launched when their coalition formally take reins of the government in Sindh.
PML-N Minister for Culture and Tourism Tehmina Daultana said those who hurling accusations against Mian Nawaz Sharif, should themselves return to Pakistan instead of indulging in blame game. “Our party is striving to ensure true democracy and supremacy of legislative institutions. We will set the trends for running democratic governments in the country,” she vowed.
In reply to a question, Mrs Daultana said that her party had reservations over possible inclusion of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the federal cabinet. “Violence in Lahore and Karachi is a grave conspiracy to destabilize the democracy by creating law and order problems,”, she said. “How it is possible that incidents of manhandling of two opposition party leaders come just before the new cabinet takes oath in respective provinces.”
It is an evil design of those who are scared of reinstatement of the deposed judges as “our governments had not taken charge in th provinces,” she said.
Asking Parliament to impeach the President, the outspoken Central leader of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has said that President Pervez Musharraf would not be tolerated anymore.
The drop scene of 12 May bloodbath in Karachi and recent incidents in Lahore and Sindh is going to start, he said this while talking to media men here outside the Parliament house on Thursday. He held President Pervez Musharraf responsible for all crisis in the country. He asked Parliament to impeach the President, as establishment is breathing its last.
The people involved in May 12 bloodbath in Karachi would be exposed before the nation soon, he said, adding that, President Musharraf is trying his level best to divert attention of nation towards other issues just in an effort to prolong his rule.
He asked President to step down respectively. PML-Q and some Parties are trying to create anarchy in the country with collusion of President Musharraf, Hashmi alleged.
He also asked Parliament to set aside legal and constitutional matters and first reinstate deposed judges who refused to take oath under Provincial Constitutional Ordinance (PCO). The system would be destroyed if there is no justice, he warned.

—Online