Mushahid rules out mly coup

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q on Monday called for a permanent accountability process through the establishment of an independent accountability institution beyond any government interference on the lines of Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI) of India.
Addressing a press conference here at PML House, Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed said the head of the accountability institution should be a consensus appointee of the Government and Opposition and he should hold a five-year tenure post.
This institution should independently work for the eradication of corrupt practices and it should have a broad spectrum without any controls or interference from any quarter, he added, elaborating his vision of a robust and permanent accountability process in the country.
He said that no one could separate friendship from peace in the region and the road to peace in Kabul passed through Kashmir and only the resolution of Kashmir problem could ensure peace in Kabul as well as the entire region.
I hope that the leadership of Pakistan and India would meet in the USA soon. Our Foreign Office has publicly said that the issue of Hafiz Saeed was not discussed in the recent secretary-level talks between both the countries. There is no proof against Hafiz Saeed for his involvement in Mumbai attack and the Indians are making accusations without proof. Pakistan should question Indians what role was played by an Indian serving colonel - Col Prohat - in the Samjhota Train attack, he remarked. He also referred to the confession of Indian Minister Chadambaram about the involvement of some Indians in the Mumbai attack, saying that this was a 180 degree-turn over the issue.
Mushahid urged the Sindh government to regularise the contractual employees of the watercourses. He said his partys MNA Marvi Memon had set a new record by leading the sit-in against the retrenchment of Sindhi workers.
As many as 1,800 engineers and other workers have been deprived of their jobs in Sindh. On one hand the PPP government hurls threats of using Sindh Card and on the contrary, Sindhi engineers are being deprived of their jobs. They are not PML workers but they are educated youth who got jobs on merit, he added. He also asked the Government to take action against those police officials who had baton-charged the participants of the sit-in and had also injured Marvi Memon.
Referring to the Supreme Court verdict on NRO, Mushahid said the Government had partially implemented the verdict and it should fully implement the court order. He also asked the Government to hold the Local Government polls on schedule, saying that the delaying tactics reflected the bad intention of the rulers who were making attempts to change the peoples rule with bureaucratic hegemony.
They (rulers) have no intention to hold local body polls and rather they are making efforts to ensure bureaucratic controls over the local bodies which are nursery for the democratic system, he added.
Mushahid said his party had also raised the issue of Dr Afia Siddiqui at the highest level and a parliamentary delegation was sent to the US as a fact-finding mission.
He categorically brushed aside the impression that the countrys democratic system was facing threats. Neither the Army would intervene, nor would the mid-term polls be held. All the stakeholders would work on the same wages and the system would continue, he added.