Summary Government doesn't even have its writ in the Federal Capital, says Zahid.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Addressing the joint session of parliament, Senator Zahid Khan claimed that the 2013 elections were massively rigged in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, adding that that the candidates were not elected but selected.
Central Information Secretary of the Awami National Party (ANP) Zahid Khan said that we stand united with the Prime Minister for safeguarding democracy and constitution. He said that resignation of Prime Minister would be an insult to the parliament.
He criticized Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for ignoring the Parliament throughout his first year in power. He remarked that the government’s attitude is not democratic, adding that the government should surround itself with political people. Bureaucracy has always destroyed the country, said Zahid. Prime Minister should not resign at any cost, he added. Government doesn’t even have its writ in the Federal Capital. How the government can then raise fingers at others, he added. Today, the federal ministers can’t easily move in or out of the Parliament because the protesters have attacked the parliament premise.
It has become a tradition in Pakistan that a government can’t progress without opposition, he stressed. Talking about his own party he said that the current opposition is still friendly, it is ANP that has been the actual opposition.
If the constitution is suspended today, nobody would be able to restore it in future, he warned. Referring to Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri, Zahid Khan said that never before has anybody hurled insults at the Parliamentarians like today. In the general elections of 2013, ANP lost 150 political workers. However, Pervez Khattak has left his province in the most crucial circumstances and has come here to invade Islamabad, said Zahid. The Federal Government has also neglected the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Who would the neglected IDPs turn to, when they go back to their homeland, he asked.
He said that if the democracy continues in Pakistan, the protesting leaders would get their chance. He urged the protesters to table their demands in the Parliament. I salute Javed Hashmi’s decision to resign from the National Assembly, said Zahid Khan. He claimed that because of these unconstitutional sit-ins staged by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek, Pakistan is being ridiculed in the world.
He said that Sufi Mohammad was arrested for openly speaking against constitution and democracy. With his comment he suggested that if a treason case can be registered against Sufi Muhammad, the radical cleric of Taliban groups in the Swat region of Pakistan, then why a treason case cannot be filed against the protesting leaders openly denouncing the parliament? He claimed that it was ANP that raised the flag of Pakistan in Swat.
Meanwhile, Qaumi Watan Party’s Aftab Sherpao said that the protesting groups were showing their lack of trust in Supreme Court by not accepting judicial commission.
He asked as to why PTI MPAs were not submitting their resignations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
