Sindh Education Minister Nisar Khuhro has announced that he will move a resolution regarding extension in stay and policing powers for Rangers.
The minister vowed that he would present the much awaited and talked about resolution today (Wednesday). He made an appeal to the opposition to not protest on Wednesday. However, the Sindh Assembly once again witnessed ruckus on Tuesday.
The session started with a two-hour delay. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), and Functional (PML-F) walked out of the session because of the delay in the presentation of a resolution seeking an extension for Rangers.
Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani and opposition member Shehryar Mehr exchanged hot words, which widened the noisy arguments in the assembly.
Khuhro formally started the session by reading Article 147 aloud. He promised that he move a resolution on the government’s behalf on Wednesday. He urged the media to pitch a ‘clash’ in the Sindh Assembly to the audiences.
At the time, PML-F’s Shehryar Mehr stood up to address the participants of the session however, Speaker Durrani rejected the request. The act led to an exchange of hot words between the two.
Meanwhile, other members of the PML-F, PML-N, and PTI lodged a protest and demanded that the speaker allow them to speak. In a bid to counter the tension, Durrani began with the questions break.
However, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) members did not participate in the protest and carried on with the questions break. Earlier on December 14, opposition parties had protested and termed the delay in the presentation of the resolution a ‘deliberate move’.
During two sessions in the past week, the government avoided discussing the issue and no resolution was moved.
