Jamaat-i-Islami Senator Mushtaq Ahmed has questioned the recent statement issued by the ISPR that followed a corps commander’s conference rejecting claims of poll interference.

“If you want to bring the country on track, there should be civilian supremacy according to the Constitution,” he said while speaking at a session of the upper house today.

He dismissed the statement as “an excuse and big joke of the century”. He added that their statements would be believed when proved through actions.

Mushtaq claimed that a former minister had said that former retired generals Faiz Hameed and Qamar Javed Bajwa, the former DG ISI and army chief respectively, “used to get legislation passed through parliament”.

He questioned how there can be civilian supremacy when “a 21st and 22nd-grade officer installed and removed parliament”.

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