Only elections can save the country from anarchy & bloodshed: Sheikh Rashid

RAWALPINDI, April 01 (SABAH): Awami Muslim League (AML) Chief and former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Saturday hit out at Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif for targeting the judiciary.

The reaction from the former interior minister comes a day after Nawaz Sharif demanded constitution of the full bench for hearing of the case regarding delay in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elections. Addressing a presser from London, Nawaz Sharif stated that two out of three judges of the Supreme Court’s bench had given every verdict against him. He said the decision of the bench hearing the elections’ case would not be accepted.

Taking to Twitter on Saturday, Sheikh Rashid said: “A fugitive is attacking the judiciary from London and behaving as Sicilian mafia”. He hoped that the top court would give a landmark constitutional ruling. He warned that public would take to the street if the Supreme Court’s orders were defied.

Sheikh Rashid said the statements being made by the government showed that it was not ready to accept the decision of the constitution and law. “Now you must be ready to face public in elections,” he wrote.

“Only elections can save the country from anarchy and bloodshed,” he averred, adding that the judicial reforms bill was made in contravention of the Constitution. Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said the government was putting pressure on the judiciary but it would do what was according to law and the Constitution.

Saying the whole nation was standing by the judiciary at this juncture, he deplored the government had put the country at stake. He lamented that people were giving their lives to get ration.