Basic rights were being taken away in the proposed constitutional amendment: Maulana Fazlur Rehman

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said on Wednesday that there was an objection to the amendment of Article 8 regarding fundamental rights in the draft of the proposed constitutional amendment, due to which he did not support it.

In a meeting with TV anchors and journalists at his residence in Islamabad, Maulana Fazlur Rahman discussed his party’s objections to the recently proposed constitutional amendment, the features of the Federal Constitutional Court, the extension of the tenure of the Chief Justice and the Army Chief, the powers of the military court. And discussed the political situation.

Maulana Fazlur Rahman said that the proposed government amendment had ‘twisted’ Article 8 of the Constitution due to which the powers of the army had been increased.

Clause 8 of the Constitution mentions the repeal of laws contrary to fundamental human rights and sub-clause 3 mentions those things where protection of fundamental rights will not be provided. Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s main objection was the amendment of sub-clause 3 of Article 8.

According to Kamran Murtaza, it was being further strengthened under the amendment of sub-clause 3, after which security was also being provided to the army and the places used by the soldiers.

According to sub-clause 3 of the present Article 8 of the Constitution: ‘On any law relating to the proper performance or discipline of members of the armed forces or police or other bodies responsible for the maintenance of public order. And by maintaining discipline.’

Maulana Fazlur Rahman said that we refused to amend this article.

Maulana Fazlur Rahman also informed about his reservations on other amendments besides Article 8.

On another proposed amendment regarding the army, Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that an amendment was also proposed in Article 243 of the Constitution, which would provide constitutional protection to the services chief.

Senator Kamran Murtaza, who was present there on this occasion, said that ‘service chiefs could not be de-notified after this amendment.’

According to Maulana, apart from this, Article 51 and 106 were being amended with regard to specific seats, which was supposed to benefit his party, but he disagreed with it in principle.

Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s party also expressed its objection to the amendment of Article 63-A, which is related to the membership of members of the Assembly.

His party also objected to Article 200 regarding transfer of High Court judges. Explaining his objection in this regard, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader and jurist Senator Kamran Murtaza said that, in principle, his party has no objection to allowing the transfer of High Court judges, but the current amendment gives this impression. It is found that it is being done only after the letter of six judges (Islamabad High Court judges).’

Extension of the term of office of the Federal Constitutional Court and judges

Maulana Fazlur Rahman also mentioned his objection regarding the proposed Federal Constitutional Court chief’s age limit of 68 years and said that fixing this limit at this time seems like it is being done ‘for a servant’. has been

According to Maulana Fazlur Rahman, in the proposed constitutional amendments, the power to appoint the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was given to the President on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.

He said that his party has no objection in principle to the establishment of the Federal Constitutional Court. He also said that all the parties have agreed on the establishment of this court in the past.

According to Senator Kamran Murtaza, a proposal was also made regarding the members of the Election Commission that the existing members will continue to work until new members are appointed, which meant that they could work as long as they wanted. can work.’

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When asked about the copy of the constitutional draft, Maulana Fazlur Rahman said that the draft came to him directly from the PML-G and the draft that we had was also with Bilawal, although he said that he has a separate (draft).’

Maulana Fazlur Rahman was asked which of these amendments would be accepted if these amendments were withdrawn?

On this, he said that ‘currently, the central elections of our party are going on, which are being held on September 29, after which a new structure will come and the action plan will be decided in consultation with them.

“Constitutional amendment should be done by the consensus of the entire opposition (including Tehreek-e-Insaf) and the People’s Party and we are working on it together, but no one has come up with a new draft yet.”

Giving further details, Maulana Fazlur Rahman said that ‘the government has expressed its willingness to withdraw from the amendment of Article 8, 63-A and the clause regarding specific seats.’

Maulana was consulted before the amendment?

Maulana Fazlur Rahman was asked whether Nawaz Sharif contacted him for consultation before the amendment. On this he said that ‘no one consulted, Shahbaz Sharif came but he only spoke of support.’

Referring to PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, he said that ‘Zardari came. They only spoke two things.’ Maulana said that ‘Zardari only requested support and was invited to eat together’.

On Tehreek-e-Insaaf, he said that ‘he is not in the mood to support them.’ According to Maulana, Tehreek-e-Insaaf is afraid that they will face difficulties due to the presence of Faiz.

The government’s attempt was to make us agree and Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s was not to agree. We were walking in the middle.’

On the final approval of the constitutional amendment and the fixed time, he said, “If something with clauses comes by October 26, it can happen.”

The new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will assume office on October 26.

On the other hand, last week PML-N Senator Irfan Siddiqui said in an interview to Geo TV on Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s objections that Maulana had no objection to the Constitutional Court and he had not specifically pointed out the differences.

Irfan Siddiqui also said that constitutional amendment would not be possible without the support of Maulana Fazlur Rahman.