PML-N retracts motion against Sindh MPAs
Chaudhry Nisar urges party members to avoid confrontation.
ISLAMABAD:
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday decided to withdraw a privilege motion it submitted in the National Assembly against a resolution in the Sindh legislature to condemn Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
Khan himself asked the movers of the motion to take it back to avoid what he called a clash between the ‘august houses’.
“It is not our policy to get involved in confrontation through assemblies. The rulers have used the Sindh Assembly for their own vested interests. We won’t do that,” Nisar said in a statement his office released to media.
Five members of the PML-N on Monday submitted a privilege motion to the National Assembly Secretariat against Sindh Assembly members for submitting the resolution against Nisar after the Supreme Court ordered the removal of the NAB chief in response to a petition by Nisar.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MPAs Imran Zafar Leghari and Saleem Khurshid Khokhar moved the motion following some fiery speeches against Chaudhry Nisar for what the members called ‘using derogatory remarks’ against Sindhi culture in his news conference on Sunday.
The members demanded that Nisar should be summoned before the privilege committee of the assembly to explain his position. Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Khuhro held the motion in order and referred it to the committee.
On the other hand, the motion moved by the PML-N members alleged that the Sindh Assembly members had violated the constitution by passing the resolution against the March 10 Supreme Court decision declaring the appointment of Justice (retd) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah illegal.
In their motion, the PML-N members had termed the passage of the resolution a violation of Articles 5, 33 and 190 of the constitution.
Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan expressed his surprise over the PPP’s move to submit a privilege motion against him in the Sindh Assembly, saying he had not used any derogatory or abusive language against the people or culture of the province.
Defending his comments at the news conference, Chaudhry Nisar said that he had stated “whenever President Zardari finds himself in trouble, he starts wearing Sindhi cap and Ajrak (a traditional shawl) and when the people of his province were in need of help during floods, he (Zardari) was visiting his palaces in the UK and France.”
Published in The Express Tribune, March 18th, 2011.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday decided to withdraw a privilege motion it submitted in the National Assembly against a resolution in the Sindh legislature to condemn Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
Khan himself asked the movers of the motion to take it back to avoid what he called a clash between the ‘august houses’.
“It is not our policy to get involved in confrontation through assemblies. The rulers have used the Sindh Assembly for their own vested interests. We won’t do that,” Nisar said in a statement his office released to media.
Five members of the PML-N on Monday submitted a privilege motion to the National Assembly Secretariat against Sindh Assembly members for submitting the resolution against Nisar after the Supreme Court ordered the removal of the NAB chief in response to a petition by Nisar.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MPAs Imran Zafar Leghari and Saleem Khurshid Khokhar moved the motion following some fiery speeches against Chaudhry Nisar for what the members called ‘using derogatory remarks’ against Sindhi culture in his news conference on Sunday.
The members demanded that Nisar should be summoned before the privilege committee of the assembly to explain his position. Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Khuhro held the motion in order and referred it to the committee.
On the other hand, the motion moved by the PML-N members alleged that the Sindh Assembly members had violated the constitution by passing the resolution against the March 10 Supreme Court decision declaring the appointment of Justice (retd) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah illegal.
In their motion, the PML-N members had termed the passage of the resolution a violation of Articles 5, 33 and 190 of the constitution.
Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan expressed his surprise over the PPP’s move to submit a privilege motion against him in the Sindh Assembly, saying he had not used any derogatory or abusive language against the people or culture of the province.
Defending his comments at the news conference, Chaudhry Nisar said that he had stated “whenever President Zardari finds himself in trouble, he starts wearing Sindhi cap and Ajrak (a traditional shawl) and when the people of his province were in need of help during floods, he (Zardari) was visiting his palaces in the UK and France.”
Published in The Express Tribune, March 18th, 2011.