ISLAMABAD:
Amid Asif Ali Zardari’s tirade of security establishment, the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of Pakistan Peoples Party came to support its co-chairman, demanding that all state institutions should work “within their limits” defined in the Constitution.
“The meeting decided that it is important for all institutions to work within their mandated constitutional parameters,” said Senator Farhatullah Babar, who is also Zardari’s spokesperson.
“We were held incompetent after [May 13] Safoora incident [in Karachi]. When I tried to explain I was stopped from doing that. This was followed by statements of corps commander [Karachi] and now by DG Rangers [Sindh]. I was forced to speak out,” Zardari was quoted as saying during the meeting.
Some participants proposed that it was the Sindh government that gave the Rangers these powers and it could also withdraw some of the powers including the power to conduct raids.
To a question, Babar confirmed that Zardari’s meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was due on Wednesday but it was cancelled. “I was told yesterday that there was a meeting scheduled with the PM today [but] when I came to Zardari House this morning I was told that it has been postponed” he said.