ISLAMABAD: Former premier Benazir Bhutto has warned that there might be an armed conflict between Pakistan and India before September next year.
Addressing a press conference recently in Lahore Bhutto said all efforts should be concentrated on saving the country from the “external threat” which the present Islami Jamhoon Ittehad Govt was “not capable” of doing.
Bhutto reiterated the demand for the establishment of an interim Govt of national consensus for holding free fair and impartial ¢lections so that a “genuinely representative” assembly and Govt came into being to salvage the country from a serious crisis.
Listing a four-point agenda for ensuring country’s integrity and progress she said there was need to break away from the Zia legacy marching towards a modem liberal and egalitarian Pakistan as envisaged by Jinnah anew social order clearly defining the role and relationship among civil and military institutions the parliament the president and the prime minister the federation and provinces and various sections of the society and a strict fiscal discipline.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 6, 1991
