Lawyers drive nagative: Asif Zardari

PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that the Parliament will decide the restoration of judges and President Pervez Musharraf’s political future.
In a telephonic interview with the BBC, Zardari said a debate in the National Assembly on judges’ reinstatement would start soon. “A committee will be set up to take decision in this regard,” he said, hoping that the decision would come in 30 days.
To a question about the countdown by lawyers’ community, Zardari said, “I shall name such elements as ‘negative forces’, because they themselves could not do in one year what this government had done in days – all judges including the CJ got freedom.
He further said, “The people who are outside the Parliament and who refused to go into the Parliament, have no right to threaten the parliament through countdown.”
To a question about President Musharraf’s political future, Zardari said it was the Parliament that would decide, and it would be premature to say anything about it. “I think, there is a room for negotiations between forces of the past and present, and only consensus will lead the democracy to move forward.”
Responding to another question, he said that PPP is continuing talks with MQM.

The Nation