The resolution against the attack on Malala Yousafzai and in favour of an operation in North Waziristan Agency could not be tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday due to opposition from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Speaking in the NA, Leader of Opposition Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the government had made parliament a graveyard of joint resolutions and not even a single one of them had been implemented. He said the PML-N did not impede the government despite facing taunts of being a friendly opposition.
“The government should stop disrespecting the parliament. The interior minister is befooling the nation by telling lies continuously,” Nisar said. “If the attackers of Malala are in Afghanistan, why does the government have plans to launch a military operation in North Waziristan Agency?” he said.
He said the tradition of calling political opponents traitors should be stopped.
Ahsan Iqbal of the PML-N said his party would provide jobs to the youth of Sindh by eradicating robbers’ rule there. The PPP government had ruined the peace of Sindh, he added. Khurshid Shah of the PPP said the PML-N was trying to make alliance with anti-federation nationalists in Sindh.
PPP’s Nasir Ali Shah said there appeared no end to the targeted killings in the country, adding that it was strange that PPP workers were being killed during the party’s rule. Saad Rafiq of the PML-N said Pakistan had become more unsafe under the PPP rule than under Musharraf’s regime.
“The nation has been divided into several segments. Now issues such as carving out provinces on ethnic basis are being raised,” he said. The PML-N leader said the government had now agreed to write the letter to Swiss authorities after sending one prime minister home. Saad said Gen (r) Ahmed Shuja Pasha had hinted at federal government’s involvement in the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis. He added that no representative of the government met Baloch Sardar Akhtar Mengal when he came to Islamabad.