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Pakistan’s political parties have warned the military regime that attempts to tinker with the Constitution by incorporating the amendments to empower President Musharraf and military would endanger the nation’s integrity and result in dismemberment, similar to 1971.
Delivering speeches in the National Assembly yesterday, political parties launched an attack on Musharraf for attempting to continue his rule with his amendments legalising his election.
Launching a broad-side against the government, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Islamic party alliance Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) said that the 1973 constitution was a consensus document. Any attempt to tamper with it could dismember the country as it happened in 1971 when the then military rulers prevented the Awami League from taking over power. ‘‘A dictator cannot be allowed to demolish the Constitution, which came into being after a decades old struggle,’’ Rahman said.
‘‘The Constitution is the consensus point and should be kept alive and untampered. Such an attempt can harm national integrity of the country,’’ he said adding that he feared a repeat of 1971 ‘‘catastrophe’’. (PTI)
