Parliament being used as a shield to restore NATO supply route: Qureshi

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Former Foreign Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central Vice Chairman Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the prime minister had stopped the NATO supplies through an executive order while parliament was being used as a shield to lift the ban.
Addressing a telephonic press conference of at Okara Press Club here on Saturday, Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that the Pak-US relations were already under strain and Washington should not have raised the issue of Hafiz Saeed while the response of the Pakistani Foreign Office was also inappropriate.
He said the prime minister should inform the nation for what reasons NATO supplies were stopped and on what assurances these were being restored. He said that Maulana Fazlur Rehman got out of the PCNS because the government was using parliament as a shield to restore the NATO supplies.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said President Zardari made wrong and inappropriate remarks about the burial of Mian Mohammad Sharif, father of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif, at a time when the prime minister was requesting the Sharif
brothers to return to the PCNS.
On the other hand, the PTI leader said there is difference between the statements of Mian Nawaz Sharif and Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. He pointed out that Mian Saheb is linking restoration of NATO supply route with an end to drone attacks while Chaudhry Nisar was speaking on opposite line.
To a question, Qureshi said the US unnecessarily raised Hafiz Saeed’s issue and it would have to present proof which could stand in the court of law. He said perhaps the US would not be able to do so.

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  1. Qureshi Sahib : What is wrong with seeking approval of the parliament to lift restriction on Nato supplies ? If it is wrong , you must spell out facts to substantiate your view . Just to embarras the government is not a worthy motive
    for any politician . Don't carry sick attitudes of your ealier politics to PTI . We expect it to outgrow irresponsible and self-serving traditions of the parties which have brought
    the nation to the present state of hopelessness .Please grow politically and morally .

  2. Hardly any would agree with this statement of him. Until now every body was shrill crying that Govt. giving no importance to the parliament; now when it has and has brought a very important decision to be made with consultation with all the stake holders in the parliament the opposition leaders all have sweet on their foreheads. Why opposition is crying false over this, speaking in American language and trying to run away from facing the reality should not be difficult to understand this. Ch. Nisar's, opposition leader in the parliament, enitre family has american nationality. Qureshi has close relationship with Helliry Clinton.

    People are watching closely and are waiting what these so called leaders who always speak at their throat against America in public rallies, do when time to take a firm decision has finally come down there.

    SHAHID HUSSEIN QABOOLPURIA,
    LAHORE, PAKISTAN

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