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Shaukat Aziz remark sparks emergency buzz

Nirupama Subramanian

Shaukat Aziz

ISLAMABAD: A remark by Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at a press conference that the Constitution permits the emergency option under specified circumstances has sent up the buzz that the government is contemplating this course of action to deal with the growing anti-Musharraf agitation.

Asked at a press conference on Sunday if the government was considering imposing an emergency, Mr. Aziz's response was that the Constitution contained a provision that allowed the imposition of emergency.

He added that it also specified the circumstances under which an emergency could be imposed.

The Prime Minister dismissed suggestions that the agitation by lawyers and opposition parties against the removal of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary posed a threat to the government.

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