JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman stated that the idea of replacing country’s current parliamentary system with a presiddential system is more like going against the Constitution of the country.
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.
“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,” he said while addressing a rally in Layyah, a small city in Punjab, on Tuesday.
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.
The JUI-F chief said the real issue was not the system of the country but non-implementation of the Constitution. “Establishment is involved in power politics and subsequently politicians also become part of this,” he remarked, implying that the country’s democratic system was not fully independent.
Fazl said the Objective Resolution was made part of the Constitution and people belonging to all schools of thought are abiding by the existing system.
Lambasting the ruling PTI, Fazl said the incumbent government has destroyed the country’s economy and surrendered it’s autonomy to the international institutions.
“We have never witnessed such an incompetent government [in the country’s history] which presents four budgets a year.”
“That’s why despite severe economic crisis in the country, no one has revolted in any party of the country [against the state].”
Fazl added that the Constitution of the country was comprehensive and guaranteed rights to all ethnicities
