All will go if system derails

Calling PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif a Tara Masih, PPP leader Senator Dr Babar Awan on Friday said a conspiracy was being hatched against the Parliament and he (Nawaz) had been tasked to “tighten noose around the Parliament”.
Addressing a news conference at the residence of Opposition Leader Raja Riaz along with other PPP leaders, Dr. Awan also took jibes at the Army and the judiciary, though in an indirect speech, for their alleged anti-democracy posture.
He alleged that Mian Nawaz Sharif did not want to become part of the Parliament and was conspiring against it. He said Nawaz Sharif had also conspired against two elected governments of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in 1990s. He said those conspiring against democracy should listen that decision regarding change of government would be made by ballot and not by bullet. Awan said it was collective responsibility of all stakeholders to restore people’s trust in the ballot.
Babar also accused Nawaz Sharif of using backdoors to come to power. He warned that if the present set up is rolled back, all will go home. “It is a whole package not confined to a single person”, he remarked.
Without going into details, the PPP Senator disclosed that son of a former chairman of Majlis-e-Shoora of General Zia had also become active to de-rail democracy. He, however, said that government will foil this conspiracy with people’s support.
Awan made mention of successive martial laws and said 1973 Constitution, which was 37 years old, had been held in abeyance for 21 years. The PPP leader said Fall of Dhaka should be celebrated as a day of resistance against dictatorship.
To a question, he said President Zardari will come back when doctors allow him. “He would definitely return to the country unlike Sharifs who left for Jeddah after signing agreement with a dictator.”
On a new PML-N petition filed in the Supreme Court on memo controversy, he said another conspiracy had been hatched on the day of fall of Dhaka.
On Mansoor Ejaz’ statement about General Pasha touring Arab countries to seek support for Zardari’s removal, Babar said either all of his statements were true or all were wrong.
“This is not possible that one day he speaks the truth while on some day he tells a lie.”
Replying to a question, he said that he had not uttered a single word on the memo case pending in the court. He said PPP will stick to the Constitution in any case.
Babar Awan said that credit went to the present democratic government for launching Swat operation when it was said that the militants were just 50 miles away from Islamabad. He said present government had written new history by confronting the world superpower unlike a dictator who surrendered to one call from a US military officer. But this time, around, he added, it was the Parliament and not a single person, which took the landmark decisions of closing supplies to NATO, vacating Shamsi Airbase and boycott of Bonn conference.
Awan said some political people were in the habit of issuing fatwas formurder and some came up with threats of courting arrests. “But we are not the ones who can be frightened. The PPP has already rendered sacrifices for democracy and would continue to do so in future as well”, he averred, adding that his party was a caravan of martyrs led by Shaheed Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.