National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) has demanded that deposed judges should be restored and the amendments to constitutions during the state of emergency must be repealed.
During a convention "Democracy: Struggle beyond the Elections'"at Faisalabad Press Club, which was arranged by NCJP, most of the speakers demanded that appropriate measures and steps should be taken to deal with the inflation, food items and power crises to provide relief to the marginalised sections on urgent basis.
Addressing the convention, Father Nisar Barkat (Director-NCJP), Haji Akram Ansari PML-N MNA, Peter Jacob (Executive Secretary-NCJP), Amina Zaman (Director-ASDP), Nabila Feroz, Suneel Malik and Naila Arooj said that the state institutions should be allowed to function in accordance with law and the Constitution.
Discrimination under any excuse is unacceptable. Therefore, discriminatory laws and policies based on religion and sex should be repealed, they demanded. They said that the Government must ensure an unrestricted freedom of expression and association. The proposed Constitutional Reform Package must ensure respect for religious and cultural diversity of Pakistan as well as provincial autonomy and decentralisation of power in the real sense to the smaller administrative units and the masses of Pakistan.