Imposition of emergency a constitutional step: Pak minister
Islamabad,
Nov
3:
Pakistan"s
Minister
of
State
for
Information
and
Broadcasting,
Tariq
Azeem,
has
said
that
the
imposition
of
emergency
was
a
constitutional
step
in
certain
conditions
but
no
such
decision
had
so
far
been
taken
in
this
regard.
Azeem said rumour factories were working overtime in the country and spreading confusion, Geo TV reported.
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He
said
if
the
current
law
and
order
situation
prevailed,
the
imposition
of
emergency
as
a
constitutional
step
could
be
considered
but,
at
present,
there
was
no
such
thinking.
Replying to a question, Azeem said that the National Reconciliation Ordinance was Pakistan's domestic issue and no country, including the US, had the right to intervene in this regard.
He said that the people would decide the country"s future leadership and outsiders had no mandate to make any choices.
Azeem said the election tussle would be between the PML-Q and the PPP, and ruled out any chances of an electoral alliance between the two parties.
He also said that said some cases against Benazir Bhutto and her spouse were in foreign countries and the Pakistan Government was not a party in them.
For example, he said the corruption charges against the company of Bhutto in the oil for food scam were being probed in a Spanish court, adding the case was initiated in 2004 so it was not covered in the NRO.
He said the government, in a bid to hold free and fair elections in the country, had introduced the NRO, but Bhutto's response to it was not positive, media reported.
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