(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Shehla Raza has disclosed that it had been agreed under the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) that no martial law would be imposed in the country until three general elections had been held.
Speaking on Geo News programme 'News Room', she said that at the time of the implementation of the NRO, the US, the UK, the UAE, and the then ISI chief had said that no martial law would be imposed until three general elections were held in the country.
"America, Britain, the UAE and the then ISI chief had held out their guarantees," Shehla Raza told anchor Aisha Bakhsh during the programme.
The PPP leader said that recently, her party's co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari, along with former interior minister Rehman Malik and nine other party leaders, had proceeded to the US to remind all the stakeholders of their promises.
She said the US had extended protocol to the ex-president and the Pakistani ambassador to the US had also met Asif Zardari in the US. She said the guarantee against martial law until at least three general elections were held was a 'silent clause' in the NRO.
"Political activists will be used to derail democracy by those who are busy enjoying cricket matches and foreign nationals who arrived here on the call of someone else."
She said it was very important to remind all the stakeholders of their promises, and that they could not use the masses in our country to derail democracy.
She said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and PTI chief Imran Khan had proved by their acts that they did not back the military operation in North Waziristan and that the military was fighting the terrorists on its own.
She said the PPP would never become a part of Imran's machinations, adding that Imran had complaints with the Election Tribunal and he should file his complaints there.
Commenting on the prime minister's Saudi visit, she said the country was in a state of war and the PM had gone for performing Umrah.
She said the ex-president (Asif Zardari) did not leave the country during such situations, adding that he only went abroad at the time of floods in Sindh but the Sindh government was very active in helping the people and this was the reason the PPP was once again given a mandate by the people of the province.
Shehla Raza said this was the time when Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan should discuss problems being faced by the displaced.
She said the PM met with Saudi Prince Muqrin, who took Nawaz Sharif away from the country after he was imprisoned, and was also a guarantor in the deal between him and Pervez Musharraf.
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