LAYYAH: Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Moulana Fazlur Rehman said on Tuesday that the opposition will send the government packing through a no-confidence motion.
Addressing a rally in Layyah on Tuesday, he said that the government’s constitution’s basic structure has four elements and Islam is part of the basic structure of the constitution, while the second element is a democracy, which means that dictatorship cannot come in Pakistan.
Fazl said the incumbent government has destroyed the country’s economy and surrendered it’s autonomy to the international institutions.
“Presidential form of government is a symbol of war and dictatorship… no one can impose authoritarian rule in the country and only people have right to elect their representatives.”
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Fazl while recalling the past stints said that country suffered a lot under the “presidential governments” led by military rulers.
“General Ayub Khan sold our [Pakistan’s] three rivers to India. Likewise, during the tenure of General Yahya Khan the country was split into two parts,” he maintained.
He said those who were speaking in favour of the presidential system were violating the sanctity of the 1973 Constitution and added that such ideas were against the country’s national interest.
