The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) finally assumed on Friday the role of a “real opposition”, launching for the first time a fully-loaded attack on the government and creating the worst ruckus ever seen in the incumbent National Assembly (NA), with all its members shouting anti-government slogans and rejecting the federal budget as “anti-people”.
As Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh began his budget speech, the PML-N’s Khawaja Asif wanted to speak on a point of order and when Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza did not allow him to do so, all PML-N members moved closer to the minister’s desk and started shouting and forced all treasury members to put on headphones to listen to the finance minister’s speech.
The PML-N members chanted “Corrupt government unacceptable!”, “Slavery of US unacceptable!”, “Respect the judiciary!”, “Respect parliament!”, “IMF budget unacceptable”, among a host of other slogans. At one stage, when PML-N women parliamentarians tried to advance towards Sheikh, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani told Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan to take the seat adjacent to Sheikh’s so she could foil any possible attack of any kind on the finance minister by the female PML-N lawmakers.
On the prime minister’s direction, Syed Khurshid Shah also sought Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar’s help, who then asked his party’s lawmakers to maintain distance from Sheikh. Despite the prime minister’s keen efforts to avert any mishap with Sheikh, PML-N’s Tehmina Daultana, in a swift move, threw bangles at the finance minister, and Ahsan Iqbal suddenly appeared to hand a loaf of bread to him. The PML-N’s rowdy protest at one stage compelled the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)’s Begum Nasim Akhtar Chaudhry to lose her temper and she confronted the PML-N women lawmakers, challenging them to a brawl.
Gilani, however, cooled Nasim down and asked her to sit quietly beside him. Senior Minister Pervaiz Elahi and the rest of PML-Quaid were quite embarrassed when a disgruntled Marvi Memon joined the protesting PML-N, wielding budget documents from which she was providing leaves to angry PML-N lawmakers to tear. With the permission of Elahi, another PML-Q lawmaker Shahnaz Sheikh daringly went straight to Marvi and snatched the papers from Marvi’s hands, a feat that earned her the senior minister’s approval.
After the finance minister finished his budget speech, the prime minister visibly heaved a sigh of relief and went to the minister with a smile on his face to congratulate him on bracing the fully-charged opposition’s onslaught. Later, addressing a press conference at Parliament House, Nisar said the PML-N’s violent reaction during the budget speech was actually against the style of governance. “President (Asif Ali) Zardari has taken parliament and the country hostage. The prime minister and the finance minister wanted to paint a false picture of Pakistan but we were portraying the true picture of the masses’ problems,” he said.
He said it was a budget prepared by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Nisar said the PML-N had taken extreme steps against the government’s obstinate approach of neglecting democracy and parliament. “We have come to the conclusion that the government does not care about democratic norms. The PM should have taken the nation into confidence over the May 2 incident,” he said. He said the unanimous resolution had been passed by the joint sitting of parliament on the PML-N’s initiative.
“But the government threw the resolution in the bin on (US Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton and (US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman) Mike Mullen’s visit… It is an insult of parliament… Now things will not remain as smooth and easy for the government as they used to be in the past,” he said. He said intelligence agencies were picking up people in broad daylight while the government was creating hurdles for an independent judiciary. “This government just wants to complete its tenure and lacks the capability to end the people’s suffering,” he said.
IT will crush the already crushed poor. Zardari late evening induction of election -vote bank designed bribery' of 15% salaries increase and 20% increase in pension will unleash the flood of anther 'mehangi'and corruption. The one stroke sweeping act will cost cash starved-deficit budget by 1000 trillion now and could reach 2000 billion by the close of 2012 .The budget is a meaningless exercise except to design how to loot and plunder the nation-where,when,how and with whom. This the budget lay our programme of loot and plunder, escalating corruption astronomically because you reward the worst corrupts by another 20-15% increase in pensions and salaries.90 percent government employees are already corrupt and have generated hundred of millions rather billions of rupees assets from clerk,patwari,meter reader to grade 22 to prime minister,president,by trillion of dollars. in last 44 months of the worst ever corrupt government of PPP-Z,MQM,ANP,MLQ .The richest farmers-industrialists, commodity traders,investors,middle men, banks ,corrupt politiciands,government,opposition reaped some 40000 billion dollars from manipulating of commodity shortages, heavily increasing support prices etc and never taxed and still for being most influential and ruling clout along with deficit of 10000 billion rupees of 2011 and 11 000 billion rupees is all corruption along with hundred of billions of rupees loans waiver must be recovered to kick start the economy and give oxygen to poor.The war on terror fought for USA,UK,NATO has not made us slave to drones,UK,NATO,USA but also costs us 17-18 billion dollars per annum while the coalition support fund-Kerry Lugar dollars are peanuts by some 1.5 billion dollars in piecemeal installments to ruin our economy and poor. This war id Zardari specific to perpetuate his power and protect his trillion of dollars assets here and abroad and of his clout who either have harvested it by corrupt means,bathakhori,target killing of thousands Karachites condoned by virtual king MR Zardari whose and his cursed coalition clout of PPP-Z,MQM,ANP ,MLQ has been darkest years of Pakistan bring us to brink of subjugation to India and slavery to USA not by negligence,incompetence,horrendous corruption but by design from day NRO blessed PPP-Zardari and his cursed coalition of PPP-Z,.MQM,ANP,MMA,MLQ took reign of government. For seven long years PPP along with MLN and other did not let Musharraf address parliaments and every hour in session was spent in worst antagonistic slogans against him and his government. But anti government slogans were only raised for the first time yesterday and PPP-Zardari was annoyed. I believe it was the unkindest cut of Nawaz Sharif to sixteen crore made poorer by this tyrannical Government to have been foolishly kinder TO PPP-Z, MQM, ANP,MLQ to have not opposed this treacherous clout from day one to have saved Pakistan from the brink of manipulative disastrous precipice. I would urge the opposition parties and even those form the government if they are true Pakistan to come out in opposition and demand immediate resignation of President, Prime minister, assemblies and neutral government of patriotic, honest men is appointed to hold free ,unrigged election to elect honest,noble,competent, representatives which nation should never falter in making the choices of evil, history sheeters,bathakhors,target killers,blackmailers,opportunist and corrupts. It is curse for any country and nation to keep a government who is not trusted for one word or one act which fallen it from its grace, dignity and, integrity and sovereignty.
What is the actual budget outlay? Finance minister talked of 2504 billions; newspaper TV channels also talk of 2767,3784(perhaps) billion rupees. If GOP gives on e figure in parliament another to TV channels-how can you trust the already most untrustworthy government sold to USA,UK,NATO for paltry dollars to fight their war and eat 17 billion dollars of its poor exchequer -just to continue itself in power.However,the 20-15% raise in salaries,pensions,time and again in last three years to corruption sunk government sector employees is tantamount to spreading ,encouraging corruption to the limits of skies. Like Benazir Income support programme funded by some 100 billion rupees by now from national exchequer has been cleverest technique to boost PPP-Zardari vote bank, the said increase of government employees is another-election, vote bank spefic.The question is who will support ones other than them in private sector,safaidposhs etc-will angels come to give them some relief who have killed by PPP-Z,MQM,ANP,MLQ governments for last darkest 44 months?The previous raises en-blocke to the corrupts only made us worst corrupt and inflation to astronomically rise with no check and control of government machinery in Center or provinces. It will be another shocking inflation, horrendous corruption and free for all for looters, plunderers this coalition cartel is known to come to stay. They must now leave the nation for honest, noble and competent people to rule us and people should unite for it or it would be too late.
The PM of Pakistan wil cost this nation a stunning Rs1.64 Billion just for foreign tours in the next year, which did nothing to help this poor nation, apart from being a luxury shopping spree for many free loaders. While Pakistan was suffering its worst floods, our president was visiting France, UK, Syria etc. Just in the last month the PM had two extensive foreign tours, each accompanied by scores of foreign junjet seekers, and the President went on another three tours, which does not include his weekend tours to Dubai, where his family resides, since he does not consider this country worth living in for his family, but definitely worth raping it.
I am astonished to see attitude of Pakistan Muslim League-N during the national budget session of the parliament. The opposition must not ignore the current situation in Pakistan, they must support government in budget making, and also support public to understand current problems in the country.
I was laughing when opposition was making "noise" during the budget session, especially some PNL-N lawmakers seem like mercenaries.
and then people wonder y the world hates our guts
Two interesting pro poor comments.
What is the actual budget outlay? Finance minister talked of 2504 billions; newspaper TV channels also talk of 2767,3784(perhaps) billion rupees. If GOP gives on e figure in parliament another to TV channels-how can you trust the already most untrustworthy government sold to USA,UK,NATO for paltry dollars to fight their war and eat 17 billion dollars of its poor exchequer -just to continue itself in power.However,the 20-15% raise in salaries,pensions,time and again in last three years to corruption sunk government sector employees is tantamount to spreading ,encouraging corruption to the limits of skies. Like Benazir Income support programme funded by some 100 billion rupees by now from national exchequer has been cleverest technique to boost PPP-Zardari vote bank, the said increase of government employees is another-election, vote bank spefic.The question is who will support ones other than them in private sector,safaidposhs etc-will angels come to give them some relief who have killed by PPP-Z,MQM,ANP,MLQ governments for last darkest 44 months?The previous raises en-blocke to the corrupts only made us worst corrupt and inflation to astronomically rise with no check and control of government machinery in Center or provinces. It will be another shocking inflation, horrendous corruption and free for all for looters, plunderers this coalition cartel is known to come to stay. They must now leave the nation for honest, noble and competent people to rule us and people should unite for it or it would be too late. [2]
IT will crush the already crushed poor. Zardari late evening induction of election -vote bank designed bribery' of 15% salaries increase and 20% increase in pension will unleash the flood of anther 'mehangi'and corruption. The one stroke sweeping act will cost cash starved-deficit budget by 1000 trillion now and could reach 2000 billion by the close of 2012 .The budget is a meaningless exercise except to design how to loot and plunder the nation-where,when,how and with whom. This the budget lay our programme of loot and plunder, escalating corruption astronomically because you reward the worst corrupts by another 20-15% increase in pensions and salaries.90 percent government employees are already corrupt and have generated hundred of millions rather billions of rupees assets from clerk,patwari,meter reader to grade 22 to prime minister,president,by trillion of dollars. in last 44 months of the worst ever corrupt government of PPP-Z,MQM,ANP,MLQ .The richest farmers-industrialists, commodity traders,investors,middle men, banks ,corrupt politiciands,government,opposition reaped some 40000 billion dollars from manipulating of commodity shortages, heavily increasing support prices etc and never taxed and still for being most influential and ruling clout along with deficit of 10000 billion rupees of 2011 and 11 000 billion rupees is all corruption along with hundred of billions of rupees loans waiver must be recovered to kick start the economy and give oxygen to poor.The war on terror fought for USA,UK,NATO has not made us slave to drones,UK,NATO,USA but also costs us 17-18 billion dollars per annum while the coalition support fund-Kerry Lugar dollars are peanuts by some 1.5 billion dollars in piecemeal installments to ruin our economy and poor. This war id Zardari specific to perpetuate his power and protect his trillion of dollars assets here and abroad and of his clout who either have harvested it by corrupt means,bathakhori,target killing of thousands Karachites condoned by virtual king MR Zardari whose and his cursed coalition clout of PPP-Z,MQM,ANP ,MLQ has been darkest years of Pakistan bring us to brink of subjugation to India and slavery to USA not by negligence,incompetence,horrendous corruption but by design from day NRO blessed PPP-Zardari and his cursed coalition of PPP-Z,.MQM,ANP,MMA,MLQ took reign of government. For seven long years PPP along with MLN and other did not let Musharraf address parliaments and every hour in session was spent in worst antagonistic slogans against him and his government. But anti government slogans were only raised for the first time yesterday and PPP-Zardari was annoyed. I believe it was the unkindest cut of Nawaz Sharif to sixteen crore made poorer by this tyrannical Government to have been foolishly kinder TO PPP-Z, MQM, ANP,MLQ to have not opposed this treacherous clout from day one to have saved Pakistan from the brink of manipulative disastrous precipice. I would urge the opposition parties and even those form the government if they are true Pakistan to come out in opposition and demand immediate resignation of President, Prime minister, assemblies and neutral government of patriotic, honest men is appointed to hold free ,unrigged election to elect honest,noble,competent, representatives which nation should never falter in making the choices of evil, history sheeters,bathakhors,target killers,blackmailers,opportunist and corrupts. It is curse for any country and nation to keep a government who is not trusted for one word or one act which fallen it from its grace, dignity and, integrity and sovereignty.
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