President Asif Ali Zardari felicitates nation on Pakistan Day

Felicitating nation on the eve of Pakistan day, President Asif Ali Zardari said it was time to realize that the Parliament has successfully removed the vestiges of dictatorship and restored the democratic Constitution of Pakistan.

The President observed, “Let us also resolve that we will uphold the Constitution and never allow it to be abrogated, subverted or held in abeyance. It is also important to uphold the independence of judiciary in accordance with the Constitution”.

He said stability will elude unless there is rule of law and everyone is equal before law and unless we all work within the constitutionally defined parameters.

On this day, he said, seventy two years ago the Muslims of the subcontinent formally committed through a Resolution to work for achieving a separate homeland for themselves.

He added, with the blessings of Allah and through the heroic struggle of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Jinnah and the founding fathers, the Muslims of the subcontinent achieved their objective on August 14, 1947, within a short span of seven years of the expression of their resolve.

Zardari said their founding fathers had resolved to carve out an independent state where there will be democracy and where constitutionalism and rule of law would reign supreme.

He regretted that successive dictators tried to stifle the democratic aspirations of the people, adding Constitutionalism and rule of law was trampled by dictators sometime under the doctrine of necessity and sometime under the theory of successful revolution.

In his view, the unanimous Constitution of 1973 was disfigured by successive dictators to suit their own political ambitions. But, he said, the democratic aspirations could never be killed.

He asked the nation to make a promise that they will not permit any dictator to usurp the basic fundamental rights of people nor allow them to trample on their democratic aspirations. This requires that they work in the spirit of tolerance, mutual accommodation and respect for dissent, he added.

He expressed hoped that the Parliament, the people and all institutions of the state will work in harmony towards this end.

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