Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the resolution passed by the Senate was made at the behest of Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari to target Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Nawaz Sharif.
The resolution passed by the Senate states that a person who is not eligible to become a member of the Parliament or has been disqualified cannot lead any political party.
“The Senate only approved this resolution on one person’s [Asif Zardari] behest,” the Punjab minister said while commenting on the development during a talk show on a private news channel.
The minister claimed that the reason the resolution was passed was Zardari’s wish to refute the notion of a backdoor deal with the ruling PML-N.
“The very Senate had accepted the Elections Bill, 2017, but now it has passed a resolution that negates the Elections Act, 2017,” added Sanaullah.
To a question, Sanaullah said the stance of the army chief that only state could declare ‘jehad’ was justified.
The minister said he was not in favour of the tone in which Capt (retd) Safdar spoke about Ahmadis in the National Assembly. He was of the view that it was a sensitive issue and it should not be repeatedly discussed in media.
The minister said that Ahmadis did not consider them as a religious minority and “we should not talk about the issue as it was a sensitive matter”. He said that although he was not in favour of Capt Safdar’s remarks about Ahmadis in the National Assembly, one should not use the issue for political point-scoring.
Sanaullah said that ex-PM Nawaz Sharif talked about the sanctity of the vote of the masses and national institutions and he was against conflict between the national institutions. He said that Nawaz Sharif would face the courts and present his stance within and outside the court.