Summary Aitzaz says privilege motion against Ch Nisar will be presented in Senate.
ISLAMABAD (Online) - Opposition parties have threatened to extend their protest to the National Assembly against ‘undemocratic’ attitude of the government.
Talking informally to them newsmen at Parliament House on Thursday, leader of the opposition Khursheed Shah said government should rectify its attitude, and if the practice of wooing opposition ended, it would eventually weaken the parliament.
He further said during PPP’s tenure, Rehman Malik tendered apology in the house as much as 21 times, but if present government continued to behave the way they did while being in opposition, parliament would suffer, and ultimately everything would end.
Responding to a question, Khursheed Shah said PTI was only busy with point scoring vis-à-vis appointment of Chairman NAB.
He said he had sought names from Shah Mehmood Qureshi for top NAB slot, but had Qureshi been serious, would have proposed a few names.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentary leader, Senator Aitzaz Ahsan Thursday warned to move a privilege motion in Senate against Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar for his harsh words.
Speaking to media outside Parliament, Aitzaz Ahsan sought apology from Ch. Nisar over his misbehavior on the floor of Upper House of the Parliament.
“If he [Chaudhry Nisar] did not apologize to the Senate by this evening, opposition parties would move privilege motion against interior minister in the house tomorrow (Friday)”.
“Terrorism is the biggest problem of Pakistan but how can the country run if we don’t know actual statistics about terrorism”, he added.
He said Ch. Nisar has been given responsibility to initiate dialogue with Taliban militants but our interior minister did not know exact figures and statistics on terrorism.
Criticizing on Ch. Nisar, Aitzaz said one man has hijacked the government.
He said if statistics given by interior minister were correct then drone attacks in Pakistan would be considered correct too.
Aitzaz Ahsan said opposition parties would not allow Ch, Nisar to run away added that he would have to apologize to the Parliament.
Earlier on Thursday morning, the opposition parties met prior to the scheduled senate session to come up with a strategy to deal with the issue. The senators decided to protest against yesterday’s episode in the National Assembly.
