Shujaat urges SC to take notice of anti-army remarks

LAHORE
Pakistan Muslim League-Q President and former Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that procedure has been explained in the Constitution regarding statement against the army and tendering resignations from the assemblies.
It has also been mentioned in the Constitution that if need be the Supreme Court can interpret and explain it as per Constitution.
According to a press release issued here Monday, the PML-Q leader said that for its interpretation the government should have approached the Supreme Court but the government was not going to do that because the government itself was involved in the whole drama. Under the current circumstances, Supreme Court should take suo motu notice and interpret it so that ambiguity prevailing among the people could end.
Ch Shujaat Hussain said the government functionaries were indulging in statement mongering against the army and if this was encouraged further then other elements would also start doing this work. The government functionaries are indulging in spreading hatred against the army to encourage the anti-State elements, he said, adding that keeping in view the Constitution, the Supreme Court by taking suo motu notice should interpret the provision in the Constitution about statement mongering against the army and the procedure about resignation from the parliament to end this issue forever.
Pervaiz: Pakistan Muslim League-Q senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that his party stands by traders on their demand about withholding tax and will raise voice against this oppression on them both inside and outside the assembly.
He stated this while talking to a traders’ delegation called on him at his residence here Monday.
According to a press release, Ch Pervaiz Elahi said that traders were backbone of national economy, PML-Q irrespective of its being in government or not always attached importance to traders and preferred to solution of their problems whereas N-League after coming into power by securing their votes instead of providing them incentives and solving their problems entangled them in new problems by imposing withholding tax, the trader community was protesting but their genuine complaints were being ignored, he added.
He said the government was focusing on jangla bus service though after rains its stations were giving a look of water tanks. The delegation while appreciating services of Ch Pervaiz Elahi for traders said that during his tenure Model Liberty Centre was established with provision of Rs160 million whereas for the poor, welfare projects, including Rescue 1122, free medicines and free education were launched, traders regarded the Chief Minister House as their own home and their problems were solved in just one meeting.
The delegation members included Ansar Zahur Butt, Rana Ikhlaq Ahmad, Humayun Mir, Dr Burhan Ahmad, Ch Islam, Hakim Allah Rakha Salfi, Ghulam Bashir Piya, Mohammad Haroon, Shahid Iqbal Moosa, Ch Asif Siyal, Ch Bashir Virk, Ghulam Hussain Awan, Mian Haroon, Mohammad Adnan and others.