Taking fresh oath a legal course: Naek

LAHORE- Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naek has said that the PPP govt was committed to restore the 1973 Constitution in its original form as was introduced by the founder of the PPP, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

The party wants revival of the 1973 Constitution through the Constitutional package but our coalition partner PML(N) did not respond to it, he said.

He said that his party has adopted Constitutional means to take the deposed judges back into the judiciary and nobody should object to it.

Supporting PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari as the most suitable Presidential candidate, he said that Benazir Bhutto would not have been assassinated had she not been exiled and not subjected to political victimisation.

He said this while addressing a ceremony held in his honour by Punjab Bar Council (PBC) here on Monday.

The Law Minister also presented a cheque of Rs 30 million to the Chairman Executive Committee of the Bar Council, Syed Intikhab Hussain Shah as grant in aid for the welfare of the community. Besides the Law Minister, Attorney General of Pakistan Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, former President Peoples Lawyers Forum Mian Muhammad Jahangir, Pervez Inayat Malik, Raja Shafqat Abbasi, Rana Abul Shakoor among others also spoke.

Naek said Pakistan was passing through a difficult phase at the moment wherein it was confronted with many Constitutional and legal problems.

Benazir Bhutto, he said, laid down her life to end poverty, to see rule of law, independence of judiciary and the sovereignty of Parliament in the country and the sitting leadership of the PPP highly regarded the legacy of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto and would implement all what she had thought.

He further said that the former regime of Pervez Musharraf brought in two PCOs for judges to take fresh oath.