Pakistani group on Supreme Court crisis
Published Mar 25, 2007 8:56 PM
The Pakistanis United Freedom Forum (PUFF) issued the following statement
on March 16 before heading to the anti-war demonstration at the Pentagon when
the news arrived that Pakistani officials had attacked journalists from the
private TV station Geo and beat the lawyers who were demanding the release of
Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry:
1. General Musharraf must resign.
2. All Western powers—especially USA—stay away from this
crisis. It is a Pakistani internal matter.
3. All political parties announce that they will not accept any army
general or Western-imposed person except through the Pakistani constitutional
process.
4. All political parties who are aligned with army junta must immediately
resign and join those forces who are fighting for the
constitution—journalists, lawyers, political workers, human rights
workers and students. If they do not, PUFF and Pakistanis abroad demand that
the political parties and the people of Pakistan remember their vulture
character.
5. PUFF demands an end to all military exercises with American and Western
forces because in present situation it will effect good relations with our
brother country Iran.
6. PUFF demands that in this situation when the country is at a turning
point, the self-exiled politicians (in Dubai, London, USA) announce their
unconditional return to the country and announce that they will not run for any
high office, but rather they will support the people who have been fighting on
the street for years against the Musharraf regime and the U.S. imposed
policies.
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