Pakistan

PML-N ministers walk out over PPP leader’s remarks on Nawaz

PPP parliamentary leader had said that the PML-N ministers in the Balochistan cabinet should be kicked out.

Express March 16, 2011

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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members walked out of the Balochistan Assembly on Tuesday in protest at remarks made by the parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) about Mian Nawaz Sharif here on Tuesday, in a sign that tension between the two parties in Punjab is spreading.

Ali Madad Jatak of the PPP said in the assembly that the PML-N ministers in the Balochistan cabinet should be kicked out in retaliation for the expulsion of the PPP ministers from the Punjab cabinet.

“Those who supported dictatorship for five years are now busy hatching a conspiracy against the democratic government. But one thing should be clear: the current government came to power through a popular mandate,” Jatak said.

In response, Sardar Sanaullah Zehri of the PML-N said he and the other PML-N minister in the cabinet would resign if Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani asked them to do so. He added that the government was led by Raisani, not the PPP, and he was a part of it because of his respect for the chief minister, not the Peoples Party.

This angered PPP parliamentary leader Mir Sadiq Umrani, who then used inappropriate language about the PML-N chief. The PML-N ministers, Zehri and Captain Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, walked out of the assembly in protest. The speaker had the remarks expunged from the record, but the ministers did not return.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 16^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (3)

Billoo Bhaya | 13 years ago | Reply "The speaker had the remarks expunged from the record, but the ministers did not return." That's all we do. Walk in and walk out. Say a few offensive words and then call it a day. Its a great job to be a politician, all paid for by the tax-payer.

Uza Syed | 13 years ago | Reply Good ----- Nawaz's Political Enterprise aka Nawaz Muslim League has got to be cornered where it belongs ------ Raiwind. These guys from a business enterprise through its political wing wishes to control us the Pakistani people. No one should be allowed to use a political party in Pakistan to work as an extension of Propaganda Ministry of a foreign country even if it happens to be the Saudis. Since they have openly declared to have a direct role in Pakistan's domestic affairs, we must take them under loop and also those working to further Saudi interests here. Saudi's are worried, no scared of Iran and neutralize them they have been working through Nawaz to create a conflict between our population in the name of Shia and Sunni. Pakistanis have to relaize and recognize our true enemies and they are people Nawaz & Shahbaz who give anything for their personal glory ----- Ameer Ul Mominenn and Khadim e Aala ------- are not Pakistani or Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Puhto or Urdu terms they are foreign inspired and recent addition to our political vocabulary.

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