WITH the Eighth Amendment gone, there are signs that the Council for Defence and National Security바카라 웹사이트 (CDNS) too will be wound up. Gen. Zia-ul-Haq had dreamt of forming a Council for National Security but this was opposed tooth and nail by then prime minister Moham-mad Khan Junejo. The reasoning was simple. Zia had incorporated the Eighth Amendment into the Constitution and was still in uniform while being president. To add to this, he had even enshrined his name in the Constitution.
What more did he want? It took Benazir Bhutto's style of functioning to provoke the army and the president into rethinking along Zia's lines to restrain a prime minister. The brain behind the CDNS in the caretaker government was the present Punjab governor, Shahid Hamid. He made no bones about the fact that with the CDNS, the president would be an even more powerful head of state. But its formation evoked very strong reactions. More than anyone else, it was the military leadership itself which was not ready for such reactions.
바카라 웹사이트Meanwhile, since its formation in January, Nawaz Sharif had kept quiet, leading to suspicions that he had struck a deal with Leghari for returning to power.The army was worried with the negative feedback it was receiving. "We have no problems if the new prime minister wishes to do away with the CDNS," Chief of Army Staff Gen. Jehangir Karamat had told this correspondent at that time.
And now with Sharif striking at the president's powers by amending the Eighth Amendment, the continuance of the CDNS appears doubtful. Said his advisor, Anwar Khaled: "It will be abolished by amending the rules." The exercise can be completed at a cabinet meeting and does not even need Parliament's approval.
The army, faced with a strong prime minister, does not pose a threat. An aide to Karamat told 바카라: "I am not sure. The CDNS has been left vague. It will slowly vanish." Initially the army and the presidency had shown solidarity over the Eighth Amendment and the CDNS. So why has there been no opposition from the army? "You must understand that today we have in the army a new, different leadership and a completely new environment. We just do not have any apprehensions," he said.
But with all the roadblocks removed, will Nawaz Sharif be able to deliver? "Well, there will be no place to lay the blame now," was the short reply from the aide.
