ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Friday (today) submitted a privilege motion against lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) including Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Mian Mannan, Capt Safdar and others over Thursday’s brawl in the parliament.
The motion signed by 23 PTI MNAs has been submitted in the National Assembly Secretariat.
PTI stated in the motion that PML-N lawmakers physically moved towards the opposition side and took physical aim at PTI MNAs as well as hurling abuses against them during the NA session.
“This attack by the PMLN MNAs led to an outbreak of fisticuff instigated by PMLN MNAs,” the party stated.
The opposition party further alleged that MNA Mian Mannan made obscene gestured with his hand towards the PTI MNAs including women sitting in the front few rows during the speech of PTI Deputy Leader Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
National Assembly on Thursday became a battlefield as a scuffle broke out between the opposition and government lawmakers who exchanged blows and pushed one another.
Five members of the opposition parties had sought permission from National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to submit a privilege motion against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for “lying” to the Lower House of the Parliament on Panamagate controversy.
The incident triggered when PTI’s deputy parliamentary leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi sought permission from the Chair to submit a privilege motion against PM’s speech made on Panamagate in the House. When the permission was not allowed, the PTI lawmakers started to raise slogans of “Chor Hai Chor Hai Hamara PM Chor Hai”.
During the sloganeering, Federal Ministers Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Tariq Fazal Chaudhry along with other PML-N members went to Shah Mahmood Qureshi where an argument took place. PTI MNAs alleged that Abbasi had passed derogatory remarks against their party Chief Imran Khan. Meanwhile, Mian Abdul Mannan of PML-N allegedly abused the PTI lawmakers.
The PTI leaders alleged that Mannan also made sexist gesturing towards a PTI female lawmaker which resulted into a physical brawl. PTI MNA Shehryar Khan Afridi entered into a scuffle with Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. This made PML-N lawmakers pushed Afridi back which led other opposition lawmakers including Jamshaid Dasti, Amjad Khan, Tariq Bashir Cheema and others to jump in.
Speaker summoned the serjeant at arms who provided security to the speaker and encircled his chair. The ruckus continued for almost ten minutes or so and soon parliamentarians from other parties came to defuse the situation.
Later, the united opposition staged a boycott of the House proceedings in a protest for disallowing the opposition an opportunity to submit an adjournment motion against the prime minister. The NA speaker later adjourned the House for 15 minutes.
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