Senate saga unfolds: A letter penned to prove innocence
Nisar sends letter to Senate chairman, says he is being dragged into a controversy.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
In a letter written to Senate chairman, the interior minister has complained that the opposition members are trying to drag him into a controversy that he has neither created nor is he responsible for.
“I am not confronting anybody, I am not fighting anybody but I will fight till my last breath in the defence of truth and what is right,” Chaudhry Nisar wrote to Senate Chairman Syed Nayyar Bokhari.
The saga started when some opposition members exchanged hot words with the interior minister over statistics relating to civilian deaths in terrorism-related incidents, which he had provided to the Upper House.
Subsequently, opposition members, barring the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), have been boycotting the Senate and demanding that the minister apologise for his behavior and take back the ‘false figures’.
In his letter, a copy of which is available with The Express Tribune, Nisar said what has caused him concern is that opposition members have chosen to drag his name into a controversy in which he is not involved and not, in any way, responsible for.
“But what is most unfortunate is that the Senators have chosen not only to misquote and distort the proceedings of the house but also to willfully malign my name for political ends and for motives,” Nisar alleges in the letter sent to Bokhari.
Nisar has also put forth four questions to clarify the situation. The questions ask of the Senate chairman: “Did I [Nisar] use a single unparliamentary word in the entire proceedings? Did I [Nisar] even for a second confront the chair or refuse to sit down when the chair asked? Did I [Nisar] pass a single snide or personal remark against anybody? Did I [Nisar] refuse to cross check or verify the information provided by the K-P government?”
Interior minister has requested Senate chairman to make the video recording of the proceedings public so that truth could be ascertained. He also requested the chairman to asses and judge by himself as to who is making the Senate hostage to their whims.
The minister has urged the Senate chairman to let the country know as to who created pandemonium in the house on October 30, and refused to take their seats in spite of repeated directions from the chairman himself.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2013.
In a letter written to Senate chairman, the interior minister has complained that the opposition members are trying to drag him into a controversy that he has neither created nor is he responsible for.
“I am not confronting anybody, I am not fighting anybody but I will fight till my last breath in the defence of truth and what is right,” Chaudhry Nisar wrote to Senate Chairman Syed Nayyar Bokhari.
The saga started when some opposition members exchanged hot words with the interior minister over statistics relating to civilian deaths in terrorism-related incidents, which he had provided to the Upper House.
Subsequently, opposition members, barring the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), have been boycotting the Senate and demanding that the minister apologise for his behavior and take back the ‘false figures’.
In his letter, a copy of which is available with The Express Tribune, Nisar said what has caused him concern is that opposition members have chosen to drag his name into a controversy in which he is not involved and not, in any way, responsible for.
“But what is most unfortunate is that the Senators have chosen not only to misquote and distort the proceedings of the house but also to willfully malign my name for political ends and for motives,” Nisar alleges in the letter sent to Bokhari.
Nisar has also put forth four questions to clarify the situation. The questions ask of the Senate chairman: “Did I [Nisar] use a single unparliamentary word in the entire proceedings? Did I [Nisar] even for a second confront the chair or refuse to sit down when the chair asked? Did I [Nisar] pass a single snide or personal remark against anybody? Did I [Nisar] refuse to cross check or verify the information provided by the K-P government?”
Interior minister has requested Senate chairman to make the video recording of the proceedings public so that truth could be ascertained. He also requested the chairman to asses and judge by himself as to who is making the Senate hostage to their whims.
The minister has urged the Senate chairman to let the country know as to who created pandemonium in the house on October 30, and refused to take their seats in spite of repeated directions from the chairman himself.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2013.