LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) says it will not support any unconstitutional move in the country and that unlike its stance during the 2014 Islamabad sit-in led by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, it will also not help the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) come out of the crisis the ruling party is currently faced with.

`Neither did we support any unconstitutional, illegal move against the democratic set-up in the past nor will do so in the future, Punjab PPP president Qamar Zaman Kaira said at a press conference here on Tuesday.

He was responding to a question about the PPP`s expected response to any unconstitutional action like delaying elections for a couple of years in the name of across-the-board accountability if the apex court dis-qualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Panama Papers case as is being feared by some PML-N leaders.

Mr Kaira was flanked by central information secretary Chaudhry Manzoor and acting Punjab secretary general Osman Malik.

Asked if the PPP would help out the PML-N under the Charter of Democracy (CoD) both the parties had signed back in 2006, in the crisis the latter is presently in, Mr Kaira said Mr Sharif had rescinded theCharterthe dayhehadappeared in a black coat before the Supreme Court bench in the case against then prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

The PPP, along with some other parties, had stood with the PML-N during the 2014 PTI sit-in in Islamabad and succeeded in offsetting the pressure to dissolve the assemblies.

To a queryifhe could throw light on what kind of questions the joint investigation team (JIT) constituted by the Supreme Court to investigate the Panama Papers case was asking the `accused` and witnesses, Mr Kaira said he could only guess from the `nervousness` of those who had so far appeared before the JIT that all was not welland that what logical end of the case would be.

Mr Manzoor said the coming weeks would witness three important developments one related to the JIT report, second about the Election Commission`s decision in the reference against Imran Khan and the third regarding foreign funding of the PTL Earlier, Mr Kaira alleged that PPP workers were being harassed by the PML-N through the use of state machinery.

In Kasur, he deplored, the house of a lawyer and former PPP`s MPA, Amjad Meo, was raided by police riding dozens of vehicles in connection with a petty case of hoisting (party) banners and posters.

He said children of Mr Meo were arrested on charges of forcibly getting the accused released from Pattoki police custody despite efforts of the local bar to defuse the situation.

He alleged that the PML-N`s local leadership, with the connivance of the deputy superintendent of police (DSP) concerned, was trying to worsen the environment.

He warned that the PPP would go from condemnation of the incident to putting up resistance against such tactics if such a need arose.