LAHORE, Dec 07: Naib ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Senator Prof. Khurshid Ahmad has expressed his deep concern over the extent of interference of foreign powers in the domestic politics of Pakistan.

In a statement to press the JI leader said that the Washington has been trying to influence decision-making, election processes and the choice of leadership in the country. Formerly it was through covert means and now it is being done boldly and openly as if Paksitan is their colony. Macro-influencing has now moved down to micro-management. Europen Countries and others have also jumped into the fray. This is an index of the dangerous erosion of sovereignty and independence of Pakistan that has taken place only under the present leadership of Parvez Musharraf.

Prof. Khurshid Ahmad has criticized the statement of the British High Commissioner openly declaring that "Instead of demanding the restoration of judiciary we are asking for independent judiciary for the future." Is the honourable diplomate suggesting that arbitrary and illegal dismissal of the Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts is not a violation of indepencence of the Judiciary and can there be even an iota of independence of the judicairy if the sword of dismissal by the exectives hangs on the heads of the Judges? Can he advocate a similar regime of independence for the United Kingdom? The imposition of Emegency and the Provisional Constitution Order, suspending the original Constittion was primarily an attack on the judiciary and resulted in the dismissal of 60% of higher judiciary. Without the revocation of the impugned orders and restortion of the Constitution and the Higher Judiciary there is no hope for democracy or free and fair elections. All these are inextricably linked.

The JI leader has also condemned the inspired hue and cry in the US and European Media about the safety of our nuclear assets. He has asserted that Pakistan is an independent sovereign state and the people of Pakistan cannot tolerate these imperialistic interferences in their affairs as also pressues and threats. They have to rise as an honourable nation to protect their freedom and sovereignty and get rid of the Mir Jaffers and Mir Sadiqs who are playing in the hands of the foreign powers or are being groomed by them. "This is a defining moment and the people, media and civil society should safeguard the coutry's sovereignty and seek for the restoration of the Constitution and the Higher Judiciary as they were on 2nd November, 2007", he concluded.


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