From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1973: Fifty Years Ago: Subverting Constitution.

ISLAMABAD -- The National Assembly today [March 13] passed Article 5 of the Constitution enabling the Parliament to enact law providing for punishment of persons who conspire to abrogate, subvert or attempt to subvert the Constitution by use or show of force, as guilty of high treason. The article also provides that any person aiding or abetting these acts shall likewise be guilty of high treason.

Before the article was passed ... the Opposition was defeated in its attempts ... to specify that abettors should include persons who had worked as Ministers or advisers in Governments which resulted from abrogation of constitutions, and enlarge the article's scope to cover acts of commission or omission which could be...