Pakistan Muslim League (N) has vowed to block the re-election of President General Pervez Musharraf for the next term. PML (N) acting president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said this while addressing a press conference at the National Assembly cafeteria here on Wednesday.
The statement came following the President's remarks at a ceremony of the ruling league the other day that only the Supreme Court could stop him to be re-elected as President from the present assemblies in uniform.
Javed Hashmi, who has been recently bailed out by the Supreme Court after more than three years in jail, said that his party along with other democratic forces would not allow Musharraf to get himself re-elected for the next term whether with uniform or without.
"We will use both options-going to courts as well as launching protests movement against this unconstitutional act," he added. "We consider re-election of Pervez Musharraf as illegal, immoral and unconstitutional," Hashmi maintained. To a questioned, he said that he reaffirms his statement that more than 50 lawmakers of the ruling league have submitted their resignations to him and interested in joining PML (N).
The PML leader opined that political parties are not playing their due roles to counter the dictatorship. "If political parties remained indifferent to the issues of national importance, they will be responsible for any major loss to the country. We will not only boycott the presidential elections but also fully resist it," he said.
He was optimistic that the people would support those political parties, which were against dictatorship as they showed in the case of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. Hashmi said that the country was passing through a critical period of its history and federation is at risk due to the bad policies of the rulers.
He praised the judiciary for taking right decisions what he said for the first time in 60 years, adding that all those politicians would be exposed who tried to strike deal with the government.