Parliamentary committee likely to decide caretaker PM: Khursheed Shah

'PTI's style of indecency, violence and hurling verbal abuses is going to throw democracy in darkness'

ISLAMABAD: The Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah on Wednesday said that the matter of interim prime minister is likely to be forwarded to the Parliamentary Committee for decision.

Addressing the media, Shah said that he's gravely disappointed with the government's attitude in the selection process. He hinted that the matter may be taken up by the Parliament. "The government's backtracking from its original stance on the interim PM issue," Shah added.



On Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's reservations, Shah said that the PM has no right to reject the nominees. "The opposition nominees will be sent to the parliamentary committee, they cannot be rejected," Shah further added.

When asked of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Naeemul Haq's indecent behaviour towards Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) Daniyal Aziz in a local talk show, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader said: "PTI's style of indecency, violence and hurling verbal abuses is going to throw democracy in the darkness."

In the 1970s, PPP brought democracy and the country into the light, PTI will throw everything back into darkness, Shah said.

Yesterday, another crucial meeting between Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Shah proved inconclusive as both the sides failed to agree on a candidate for caretaker premiership.

The meeting continued for just over half an hour before ending in a deadlock, with PM Abbasi refusing to entertain the two fresh nominations for caretaker premiership put forth by the PPP, sources privy to the meeting shared details with The Express Tribune.



Abbasi was not happy with the inclusion of the names of Zaka Ashraf and Jalil Abbasi Jillani by the PPP and asked Shah why the fresh names were floated when serious deliberations were already underway on the names taken up earlier.

An official source said the PM had little reservations over Jillani but was not ready to consider Ashraf’s name given his close association with PPP supremo Asif Ali Zardari.