Summary Asif Zardari has said that Constitution is the basic social contract between the state and citizen.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Former president and Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in his message on the Constitution Day on Tuesday said that the sanctity of the Constitution demands that we not only act upon it in letter and spirit and safeguard it but also to punish those treasonous elements that have abrogated and subverted this foundational document of the state.
He said that Constitution is the basic social contract between the state and citizen and acts as the glue that binds its federating units.
Asif Zardari said that it is a national disgrace that a dictator abrogated the Constitution in 1977 and later ridiculed it as ‘a mere 15-page document’ that he boasted could be torn at will.
“Tearing the Constitution is tearing the soul of the nation. Ridiculing it is ridiculing the people,” he said.
Those who tear and ridicule the Constitution are the traitors of the nation. Dictators and usurpers must be punished and they will be in the fullness of time, he said.
