GUJRAT: Pakistan People`s Party Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira has demanded the trial of General (retired) Pervez Musharraf on two counts: one for imposing emergency on Nov 3, 2007 and the other for his coup on Oct 12, 1999, saying the latter was a bigger sin because the general had handcuffed an elected prime minister.

However, he said, the trial must remain within the constitutional and legal domains.

He was talking to the media at the Gujrat Press Club after extending felicitations to its newly elected office-bearers on Monday.

Mr Kaira said the country would never see any religious revolution as there was a big division on the sectarian basis. But the chances for a democratic revolution were very much which would happen gradually, he said.

He said the PPP would not let any perpetrator derail democracy in the country and it would play the role of a responsible opposition without taking care of taunts of friendly opposition just the PML-N had done during the PPP government.

The PPP leader said no single party could steer the country out of the crises and a national consensus was needed that`s why the PPP had introduced the policy of national reconciliation.

Mr Kaira said as a federal minister he had asked Punjab ChiefMinister Shahbaz Sharif not to strengthen the tradition of setting up protest camps at Minar-iPakistan over the energy crisis as the same tactic could become a problem for them when the PMLN will be in power. `Today I give the same advice to PTI chief Imran Khan to not take the protest drive to a level so that the hidden forces could take benefit out of it,` Kaira said.

`Shahbaz had challenged by saying `change my name if I could not overcome the energy issue within the first six months of the PML-N government` and now I m calculating six months and has got the changed name in mind to be suggested for the Punjab CM,` he said.

Mr Kaira said the opposition parties had serious reservations over the local bodies, especially the way the polls were being conducted, and urged the government to get the polls postponed from the court for making necessary changes to the LG laws.

He said any elections without empowering the election commission would be futile that could further question the credibility of elections since the May general elections had serious question marks over their transparency.

He ruled out mid-term elections since the situation in the country could not afford such a move at the moment, however, in case of government`s failure in economy, unemployment and terrorism, the mid-term polls might take place.