"PECA Law: 'We’ll Point Out Constitutional Conflicts to President Zardari" PFUJ President Afzal Butt
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00:00Now the issue is that the bills have been sent to the President immediately.
00:08We can only hope that if Zardari is even a little bit honest in his statement that
00:15no, no, no, we want to talk and make it happen, then the President should not sign it.
00:21He didn't even do it on the Madrasa Bill. But there is an issue.
00:26He was requested not to do it on the Madrasa Bill.
00:29Now this bill has come from the Interior.
00:32You know where the Interior Minister has come from.
00:35So will he be able to stop it on this bill?
00:38Sir, look, the statements that you have made are being made by the government.
00:43During this bill, we told the government that neither are we against rules and regulations,
00:50nor are we against the mother pigeon freedom.
00:53We are the biggest victims of fake news and the biggest opponents.
00:58So we want to have a meaningful consultation.
01:02We were also present in those meetings.
01:05But if the intention was right and not superstitious,
01:10then people all over the world are looking for stakeholders to come and talk to.
01:17Here, the organization of five stakeholders was running after the government
01:22that we want that there should be rules and regulations in Pakistan.
01:27We are against mother pigeon freedom.
01:29But they have lied everywhere.
01:31They have said yes, we will talk, we are doing it now.
01:34How many times have we sent them those written things?
01:37First of all, I would like to talk about what they are telling the public.
01:42Secondly, there is Abbal in Asif Ali Zardari's court.
01:46We request him to invite senior journalists from our Joint Action Committee.
01:54We will tell them which of the Shikhs are against the law of Pakistan,
02:01which of the Shikhs are against human rights, which of the Shikhs are against press freedom.
02:06How can you criticize those people who are doing nonsense?
02:11You want to criticize them, I want to criticize them,
02:15but none of us is a supporter of them.
02:18But if Mr. Zardari raises the same objections and sends the bill back to the parliament,
02:24Mr. Nawaz Sharif should intervene,
02:27he should explain to his community and his government that now you are getting a second chance.
02:32He should sit with the senior journalists and praise fake news.
02:37Will you do it or will a sub-inspector do it?
02:40A sub-inspector will do it.
02:42What they are saying is that this bill is an initiative of the government.
02:48I don't think the government made it.
02:51I think the government just processed it.
02:54In the past, when such bills used to come, the Ministry of Information used to draft them.
03:00This time it came from the interior.
03:02So many things are not being adopted.
03:05So Mr. Zardari, first tell us, you are sitting in Karachi,
03:08you have a lot of interest there.
03:11Will Mr. Zardari not do it?
03:13Will he send it back?
03:15Will there be a chance?
03:16After that, we will discuss the future strategy.
03:19Sir, this evening I met a very important minister of the Sindh government at a reception.
03:29And we talked to him about what Mr. Bhatt was saying,
03:34that Mr. Zardari should meet the Joint Action Committee.
03:37Call the Joint Action Committee and talk to them.
03:41Listen to them and see how much weight they have in their talk.
03:45Now this court and court rules, the minister said that yes,
03:49I will try to get this message, provided that they do not sign tonight.
03:55So now the way it is, it seems that maybe they will sign,
04:00but the protest that took place today,
04:03it is possible that the pressure of that protest has been felt somewhere.
04:08If they had not signed, then I think that today's protest would have been a great success.
04:15And if they sign, then we have been fighting, we will continue to fight.
04:21But the people who come and stand with us tomorrow will be exposed.
04:25Because signing means that the party, because they are not just the president of the country,
04:32they are also the president of the Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarian.
04:36He is also the co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party Parliamentary.
04:42So if they sign, it means that the concern of the People's Party is included in it.
04:49So this will be their test today, whether they sign or not.
04:53Tell me one thing, I am also looking at it from another angle.
04:56I feel that if something was going towards improvement between the establishment or PTI,
05:03if there was a little possibility, then this law would not have passed at this time,
05:10in 15 minutes, they pushed it through everywhere.
05:17This means that there will be more strictness in the coming days.
05:20There will be more limits.
05:22This is why a pre-emptive environment has been created so that the media cannot talk.
05:27Sir, you will remember and Mr. Bhatt will also remember.
05:31When Maryam Aurangzeb was the Information Minister, a bill was being prepared overnight.
05:36And they did not know about it.
05:40When they were informed that this bill was going to be presented the next day,
05:45it was a good thing that they changed the Information Officer.
05:53Exactly the same kind of legislation was going to be done in Sindh.
05:57On which I called Nasir Shah at that time.
06:00I said, are you seeing what is coming?
06:04So he was stopped.
06:05At least in Sindh it happened that he was stopped.
06:07Then a committee was formed which is now considering it.
06:10So it is being thought about how to impose restrictions on thinking.