Deposed judges to be restored in due course of time :Zardari

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday that deposed judges of superior courts would definitely be restored in due course of time. Speaking as Chief Guest at South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) Roundtable Conference on “Media Freedom, Laws and Security” at a local hotel he said “Let us solve the issue politically”.
Moments after its installation, this government released the detained deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and his family while the lawyers were struggling for months for this purpose, he said adding that legislation would be done soon to reinstate the deposed judges.
Zardari said the draft for constitutional amendment for this purpose was being presented to the Prime Minister today and then it would be handed over to PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif. He hoped that the proposed constitutional package would be approved by the Parliament before the Budget session.
He said that the PPP was fully committed to restore the 1973 Constitution in its original form. “Some friends have advised me to adopt short cut but my legal team does not agree to the idea”,he added.
Asif Zardari stressed that PPP would not let down the people on the issue.
On the issue of media freedom he said that he was committed to media freedom as was Shaheed PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto. He said he was bound by the legacy of history and the future of the party. We are committed to ideals of Benazir Bhutto and the PPP. He said that media community was part of the PPP struggle for democracy and the PPP was the part of media struggle for freedom of expression.
“PPP has always struggled for the restoration of real democracy and it remained in the forefront in the journalists and lawyers struggle”, he said emphatically.
He said that the present government inherited the food crisis and inflation from the previous regime.”People ask me why wheat prices were high, why petroleum prices were high, why their sons were jobless?”.
He promised that prices of wheat and other food items would come down and economy of the country would be managed in a better way but the fact should be kept in mind that only 60 days have passed since the new government came into power.