Tamasha is not an unparliamentary word, states Nisar
Opposition members are boycotting NA sessions after Nisar termed vote verification issue a 'drama'
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. PHOTO: PID
ISLAMABAD:
The term “tamasha” is not an unparliamentary word, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said while clarifying his comments that triggered boycott by the opposition members in the National Assembly, Express News reported on Friday.
The interior minister had termed the vote verification issue a “drama staged by a single party” during an earlier National Assembly session. Angered at Nisar’s tone, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had announced they would boycott the lower house proceedings until the minister took back his words.
Speaking to the parliament today, Nisar said there should be a valid logic or reasoning behind demands made by the opposition members and accused them of creating an issue out of a non-issue.
Without naming PTI, Nisar said the party had claimed to introduce new trends into politics but has failed to do so.
Talking about the thumbprint verification process, the interior minister said he had offered to form a committee with members from the opposition benches to look into this matter. “We have gone out of our way to facilitate all the concerns raised by the opposition members,” he said, adding that the government’s intentions are good.
He requested the opposition lawmakers to not be stubborn and show flexibility in order to jointly address problems faced by the country.
The term “tamasha” is not an unparliamentary word, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said while clarifying his comments that triggered boycott by the opposition members in the National Assembly, Express News reported on Friday.
The interior minister had termed the vote verification issue a “drama staged by a single party” during an earlier National Assembly session. Angered at Nisar’s tone, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had announced they would boycott the lower house proceedings until the minister took back his words.
Speaking to the parliament today, Nisar said there should be a valid logic or reasoning behind demands made by the opposition members and accused them of creating an issue out of a non-issue.
Without naming PTI, Nisar said the party had claimed to introduce new trends into politics but has failed to do so.
Talking about the thumbprint verification process, the interior minister said he had offered to form a committee with members from the opposition benches to look into this matter. “We have gone out of our way to facilitate all the concerns raised by the opposition members,” he said, adding that the government’s intentions are good.
He requested the opposition lawmakers to not be stubborn and show flexibility in order to jointly address problems faced by the country.