Summary Opposition in Senate staged walked out after Nisar replied rudely to Zahid Khan and Raza Rabbani.
ISLAMABAD (Online) – Senate heated up on Wednesday session, over interior minister’s alleged “egoist and marshal” behavior, prompting PPP’s Maulana Bakhsh Chandio to burst “are you a minister or a school master?”
The clash sparked during question hour, when federal interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that 120 KP residents had lost their lives during 136 incidents of terrorism ; which was contradicted by Senator Zahid Khan, who said that the toll was numerous in three incidents of terrorism.
Retorting to this statement of Zahid Khan, the interior minister said that only provincial governments were supposed to answer questions relating to their respective provinces; adding that “federal government had no system to monitor terrorism in provinces”.
This exchange between Nisar and ANP’s Zahid brought in intervention of Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan who avowed that opposition would take the answer to the question, “otherwise opposition would stage a walkout”.
Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentary leader, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan has said that Wednesday was the blackest day in the Parliamentary history of Pakistan.
He was talking to media person outside the Parliament house here on Wednesday.
“Terrorism is the biggest problem of Pakistan but how can the country run if we don’t know actual statistics about terrorism”, he said.
Opposition walked out of Senate session on Wednesday as Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan replied rudely over the questions asked by Senator Zahid Khan and Senator Mian Raza Rabbani.
It is pertinent to mention that Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan gave false details and information about the statistics of terrorism victims during session that put fuel to fire.
Aitzaz said that Senator Zahid Khan asked the interior minister about the killing data so far in terror activities and Chaudhry Nisar gave wrong details.
PPP leader said that Senator Mian Raza Rabbani told the interior minister that 25 causalities have been reported in Secretariat bus blast and total 212 people were killed in different terror activities.
It is significant to mention that Chaudhry Nisar revealed 192 total causalities during his speech.
“After the arguments of Raza Rabbani, the interior minister treated harshly and replied impolitely,” Aitzaz Ahsan mentioned.
PPP lawmaker said that opposition cautioned the Chairman Senate against the behavior of Interior Minister but despite correcting his behavior, Chaudhry Nisar started hurling catcalls upon opposition than opposition walked out from proceedings of the house, he added.
