NewsMonday, September 24, 2007
1973 Constitution doesn’t exist: AfganLAHORE: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Sher Afgan Niazi said on Sunday that Pakistan’s current Constitution was not the constitution of 1973 as the words ‘1973’ didn’t appear in it. Talking on Geo television’s programme ‘Presidential Election-The Great Debate’, he said the Urdu version of the Constitution was full of errors in translation, so this version could not be used as a reference. He denied that the Election Commission had made new rules for the presidential election, saying he himself made these rules after consulting the Law Ministry and jurists. Supporters and opponents of President General Pervez Musharraf got into an ugly altercation in the programme, forcing the channel to censor some remarks made by the president’s lawyer. Gen Musharraf’s lawyer Ahmad Raza Kasuri made angry comments at Supreme Court Bar Association President Muneer A Malik. The channel’s censors deemed the remarks inappropriate. Other guests on the programme chanted “shame, shame” at Kasuri’s remarks, and this angered the lawyer further. He shouted at the other guests and lost control, at which the show’s hosts had to call off the debate. daily times monitor
Courtesy DailyTimes.com.pk