PPP, PML-N mock PTI’s ‘flop show’
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders were not quite so critical of the demonstration
KARACHI:
PTI rivals claimed that the people of Karachi have rejected the party’s Plan C. Representatives of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) claimed the plan only aims at destabilising the economy of Pakistan
“While he failed to attract the crowd, he succeeded in causing a loss of more than Rs80 billion to the economy on Friday,” said PPP senator Taj Haider. Haider said that the PTI leader wanted to make a new Pakistan by setting a new precedent: staging sit-ins on the main arteries of the city, setting tyres on fire and pelting stones on moving vehicles.
Ismail Rahoo, the president of PML-N Sindh chapter, termed the PTI sit-in a ‘flop show’.
Meanwhile, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders were not quite so critical of the demonstration. “Every party should have the right to conduct peaceful political activities in any city of Pakistan,” said MQM Rabita Committee member Ghazi Salahuddin.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 13th, 2014.
PTI rivals claimed that the people of Karachi have rejected the party’s Plan C. Representatives of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) claimed the plan only aims at destabilising the economy of Pakistan
“While he failed to attract the crowd, he succeeded in causing a loss of more than Rs80 billion to the economy on Friday,” said PPP senator Taj Haider. Haider said that the PTI leader wanted to make a new Pakistan by setting a new precedent: staging sit-ins on the main arteries of the city, setting tyres on fire and pelting stones on moving vehicles.
Ismail Rahoo, the president of PML-N Sindh chapter, termed the PTI sit-in a ‘flop show’.
Meanwhile, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders were not quite so critical of the demonstration. “Every party should have the right to conduct peaceful political activities in any city of Pakistan,” said MQM Rabita Committee member Ghazi Salahuddin.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 13th, 2014.