ISLAMABAD. Aug. 7: Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto marked the first anniversary of her ousting as Prime Minister on Tuesday saying she now expected to be bundled out of Parliament too. reports Reuter.

"I do not expect to be In Parliament. They know that none of them can speak as well as I can. So they want me out of Parliament. So they wont be embarrassed." she said.

If corfvlcted on any of eight charges of abusing her powers during 20 months as premier. Bhutto could be disqualified from holding any public position for seven years.

But Bhutto said the way Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rammed a constitutional amendment through the National Assembly last month without debate showed that Parliament was becoming irrelevant

Speaking in an Interview, she said her Pakistan People's

Party (PPP) remained the only Muslim, humane, liberal alternative in Pakistan.

Another report from Karachi adds: The former Prime Minister and the cochair-person of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) has expressed the view that the "war" between the Army and the government would continue even after the change of the chief of Army staff. Gen Mirza Aslam Beg. on August 16.

Ms Bhutto'S statement was a direct reference .to thb denial by a foreign office spokesman of the statements by Gen Beg about the appearance of war shadows in the region and the possibility of an attack by India. A controversy has been generated on the issue, inviting criticism from Ms Bhutto and other leaders like Nawabzada Nasrullah of the Pakistan Democratic Party and Mr Malik Qasim, chief of a Muslim League faction.

Ms Bhutto, who is tp Islamabad these days. Is busy organising a campaign against the government of Mr Nawaz Sharif on more than one count. She described the contradiction Gen Beg's statement by the foreign office spokesman as a "public slap." Talking to a select group of newsmen, specially Invited for an Informal talk, Ms Bhutto expressed the opinion that Gen Beg has a right to give statements on na tlonal security when Pakistan is facing a threat by India. The government should not have contradicted the statement of the chief of Army staff, she said.

Ge. Beg. 1n his farewell address to troops In Slalkot-and elsewhere last week said that shadows of war had started appearing' over the region following the aggravated situation .in Kashmir and India might embark on some adventure against Pakistan. The

spokesman of the foreign office, at his briefing, contradicted the statement saying there was no immediate threat of an Indian attack on Pakistan. Gen Beg. In his later statements. avoided any direct reference to the Indian threat. If he made any such remark it was not included in the press release issued by the Inter-services public relations.

The general, however, did say in his addresses at Bahawalpur. Okara and Multan that certain countries who have vested interests in the region consider Pakistan as the main stumbling block in the way of their objectives. "We are alive to the motives of these countries and will frustrate their designs." he said.

His only implied reference to India was in his warning that the Pakistan Army was not the Army of 1965 or 197.1, the years when Pakistan and India fought wars.