PPP ready to 'keep replacing' premiers if repeatedly ousted by SC in Swiss letter case

Lahore, Aug 15 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party's (PPP) senior leader, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan has said that if the Supreme Court disqualifies Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf for failing to write to the Swiss authorities asking it to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP will accept the court's decision, but will also find a replacement.

The Express Tribune quoted Aitzaz, as saying that the PPP would bring in a new prime minister, even if it meant electing and presenting a dozen more premiers till the end of the current parliament's tenure in March 2013.

He added that there was no possibility of reaching any sort of compromise in the implementation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance verdict case.

"There is no middle way if contempt proceedings against Prime Minister Ashraf are initiated ... the Supreme Court is bound to remove the incumbent premier for contempt, as was done in the case of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani," Aitzaz said.

The government, he added, would never exercise any tactics, which might harm the dignity of the court.

Aitzaz said he did not think the judiciary is going beyond its limitations, but in the case of NRO implementation case, the judiciary is on the wrong track. (ANI)