All institutions united on agenda of Pakistan's survival: Chohan.

LAHORE -- Punjab Information Minister Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan on Wednesday said all the state institutions, including Army and judiciary, were united on the common agenda of the country's security and survival.

Talking to the media here at the Punjab Assembly, he said the Pakistan Army and other security agencies were on the same page with the government. The minister said martial law in any shape was not acceptable. On many occasions in the last 12 years when speculations about imposition of martial law and suspension of the Constitution were rife, the top leadership of army supported the democratic process, he added.

He said in order to protect Pakistan from internal and external threats, thousands of sacrifices, especially in the last two decades of war against terrorism, had been rendered by the Pakistan Army.

Referring to the death sentence given to former president General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf by the Special Court in the high treason case, he said till 2010, Article 6 of the Constitution suggested only life imprisonment as punishment for abrogation of the Constitution. The act was amended in the year 2010 under the 18th Amendment to include suspension of the Constitution as a form of high treason as well but without clarifying whether it had retrospective effect, he added.

Chohan said on November 3, 2007 the Constitution was suspended only to the extent of few articles related to human rights for 42 days and neither...