Warning the Pakistan government that any decision to impose emergency would “ignite fires” all over the country, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has said any deal with Pervez Musharraf was not possible while he continued to be the Chief of Army and President.
“Any attempt to impose emergency would ignite fires all around the country which the government can not contain,” Bhutto said in a media interview in Oslo reacting to reported remarks by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz that the government may impose emergency if conditions warranted it. She said that her Pakistan People’s Party will not accept Musharraf as President “in uniform”.
“We have already given our stance on Musharraf’s uniform, but I won’t go into details on this matter now,” she said replying to questions relating to speculation about a deal between her and the Pakistan President. Bhutto said the people of Pakistan had stood up against the present government and wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible.
She said her party still adhered to the Charter of Democracy signed with former Premier Nawaz Sharif and that she signed it to let people know that political parties can set aside their differences for the common good.
She said democracy couldn’t flourish in a country where the Constitution had “lost its supremacy”.
The government wouldn’t be able to control the situation if all political parties started a “joint struggle”, she said.