Thursday, May 15, 2008, Jamadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1429    

Country not in crises: Zardari
Judges resolution to be tabled in joint session

M S Tanvir

Islamabad—Co-chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday said a resolution for restoration of judges will be presented before a joint session of Parliament.
He was addressing a press conference after attending a meeting of PPP’s Central Executive Committee, Federal Council and MNA’s and MPA’s from Punjab.
“The media is presenting a picture as if the country is facing a situation of severe crisis, but in my view the situation is not that grave,” Asif Zardari maintained.
He said detailed investigations into the assassination of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto will be undertaken.
“I will take the revenge of Mohtarma’s slaying through transforming the system…we want that experts should undertake the probe and get to the bottom of it,” he added. “There was a foreign conspiracy behind the Martyrdom of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto,”
Zardari said he is committed to pursue the path of honesty and reconciliation. “We were the ones who initiated the lawyers’ movement, laid down maximum sacrifices, we chanted the slogan of changing the system,” he claimed. We want to arrest the economic melt down, he added.
He said PPP and Pakistan Muslim League-N do not agree on only one point, adding, it does not at all mean as if there is a huge rift between the two allies.
Mr. Nawaz Sharif stressed on judges restoration by notification and denotification and its implementation through police. But that could had created political crises in the country, Zardari said.