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The Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F), which recently announced an electoral alliance with the Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League, says it will go to court against the government’s lackadaisical attitude. “Despite our repeated requests, the Sindh Assembly speaker has not allotted the opposition leader slot to us,” said PML-F General Secretary Imtiaz Shaikh. “We have no other option but to file a petition in the Sindh High Court.”
He alleged that the government is not allotting the slot to his party because it has an agreement with one of its coalition partners. “That party will soon announce separation from the government and sit on the opposition benches to get its own opposition leader appointed,” he claimed.
But Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro says that some legal requirements must be fulfilled first. “We have to verify the signatures of the MPAs who have supported Nusrat Seher Abbasi as the opposition leader,” Khuhro said.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2013.
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