LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Thursday said that government was posing serious hurdles for the Sindh government and had created an atmosphere of fear there.
Talking to the media, he said that Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa also highlighted the government’s attitude and made its intentions public. The PPP leader urged the government to “At least listen to the CJP, if not to the opposition.”
In regard to Law Minister Farogh Naseem’s statement calling for the (federal) government to take control of Karachi, Kaira said, “The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is pursuing a policy of coercion”, adding that Sindh cases were now being dealt with by Punjab.
He said that the impression of a forward bloc being formed was being presented in Sindh while the orders of Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani were not being followed. He added that the federal government was pursuing a fascist agenda by creating a constitutional crisis in the province.
He added, “I have heard that there will be a reference against the Chief Election Commissioner since a reference was filed against the first judge as well.”
The PPP stalwart said that the CJP implied that politics and democracy were in danger under the policies of the current government. “CJP Khosa said that the violation of constitutional law would not be tolerated,” Kaira added.
Qamar Zaman Kaira went on to say that the government should learn from the past. He added that Pakistan’s accountability system should be made transparent and that accountability should not be restricted to a few opposition parties.
“Government made various measures and took u-turns on each one of them,” he said.
