Army necessary for National defense: Amin Fahim
ISLAMABAD: Chairman ARD and vive chairman PPPP, Makhdoom Amin Fahim considers Pakistan Army imperative for the defense of the Country, but said that some "adventurous power mongers" were giving it a bad name.
Addressing a local seminar at a local hotel, he said that due to wrong and ill-intention attitude of these very "adventurers", even suicide bombings have been started against the Army, and fair and transparent elections ensuring the participation of all polity, are very important.
He said that the "politics of expediency" can easily be vanquished, after active, responsible and conducive realization and participation of the Judiciary.
While addressing the seminar, he said that the 2002 elections were unfair and rigged, in which PPPP was strongly and vividly "discriminated against" by "refusing to allow party chairperson Benazir Bhutto to contest them", or to hold the highest party portfolio "within the Country".
He said that these steps forced the chairperson to adopt "prudent political sagacity" by renaming the party (faction) PPPP, and still managed to emerge as a major political force of the Country.
He also accused the military regime of managing to create a separate faction of ten prominent dissidents and establishing a today government.
He berated the law and order situation of the Country, with specific reference to the worsening situation in Karachi, besides rampant inflation, poverty and unemployment in the Country.
He said after what has happened in Malakand and Dargai, it has become more imperative to save the Federation than democracy itself.
Addressing the seminar, Chief Justice (Retd) Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui said that fair and transparent elections were imperative for democracy, and lauded the justification for permitting the "exiled" leadership to return for participating in forthcoming elections.
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ISLAMABAD: Chairman ARD and vive chairman PPPP, Makhdoom Amin Fahim considers Pakistan Army imperative for the defense of the Country, but said that some "adventurous power mongers" were giving it a bad name.
Addressing a local seminar at a local hotel, he said that due to wrong and ill-intention attitude of these very "adventurers", even suicide bombings have been started against the Army, and fair and transparent elections ensuring the participation of all polity, are very important.
He said that the "politics of expediency" can easily be vanquished, after active, responsible and conducive realization and participation of the Judiciary.
While addressing the seminar, he said that the 2002 elections were unfair and rigged, in which PPPP was strongly and vividly "discriminated against" by "refusing to allow party chairperson Benazir Bhutto to contest them", or to hold the highest party portfolio "within the Country".
He said that these steps forced the chairperson to adopt "prudent political sagacity" by renaming the party (faction) PPPP, and still managed to emerge as a major political force of the Country.
He also accused the military regime of managing to create a separate faction of ten prominent dissidents and establishing a today government.
He berated the law and order situation of the Country, with specific reference to the worsening situation in Karachi, besides rampant inflation, poverty and unemployment in the Country.
He said after what has happened in Malakand and Dargai, it has become more imperative to save the Federation than democracy itself.
Addressing the seminar, Chief Justice (Retd) Saeed uz Zaman Siddiqui said that fair and transparent elections were imperative for democracy, and lauded the justification for permitting the "exiled" leadership to return for participating in forthcoming elections.
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