Islamabad, June 27
Pakistan’s agitating opposition parties and the government are set for another round of confrontation in Parliament tomorrow with the parties deciding to take out a protest march to coincide with the vote on no-confidence motion moved by them against the Speaker for declaring President Pervez Musharraf’s constitutional amendments as legal.
“We will march to the Parliament building in a procession tomorrow for a debate and vote on the no-trust motion,” Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal parliamentary leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed told reporters.
The march would start from Parliament lodges near Parliament and would converge on Parliament House in protest against the government’s “anti-people” policies, senior PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim said.
From there, the rally would move on to the adjacent Supreme Court building in protest against pro-Musharraf rulings by the court, he said.
The protest coincides with the National Assembly taking up the opposition’s no-trust motion against Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain for his ruling that the Legal Framework Order issued by General Musharraf was legal.
The government had already warned that it would take stern action if the rally created law and order problems.
Explaining the reasons for holding the march outside the Supreme Court, he alleged the judiciary had been made “hostage” under the provisional constitutional order issued by General Musharraf.
— PTI
