MNA Gulali demands national govt after ‘politicians’ failure’

• Former PTI leader asks parliament to make legislation to ban protests, sit-ins, road blockade

LAHORE: Member of National Assembly (MNA) Ayesha Gulali, a former member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), on Monday demanded of a national government, as she believed that the politicians have been failed to deliver to the masses and to the country as well.

Addressing a press conference here at the Nisar Usmani Auditorium of the Lahore Press Club on Monday evening, she said that she would contest the general elections, likely to be held in 2018 as per schedule, against PTI Chairman Imran Khan.

Criticising the continuous demand of her former party for early elections, she said that this was much better to demand reforms in the electoral process. She claimed that the lawmakers were more interested in seeking their personal benefits instead of playing their role for positive legislation.

“They (politicians) have been failed to play their role as they did nothing for the sovereignty of the country,” she said. She said that this was the army which brought peace in Karachi and this was what showed the failure of the politician.

“Army foiled the foreign interventions in Karachi and exposed the culprits,” she said, adding that those who talk against the army were attempting to hide their failures and corruption. “Till now, not a single government in Pakistan had solid economic policy while the current government also remained reluctant to make any economic policy,” she said.

MNA Gulalai said that this was a result of poor economic policies that people were committing suicides due to poverty. Criticising the protests, she said that these protests and sit-ins also affected the economic situation of the country. She demanded of the parliament to make legislation to ban sit-ins.

“Not a single political party is interested to solve the issues. Former president Asif Ali Zardari, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan have no solution for the problems of the people. In this scenario, the government should go back to home and a national government comprising intellectuals and honest people should be announced,” she said.

Gulalai appreciated the role of the military to end the sit-in of a religious group at Faizabad on a junction of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. “Our military saved the country from sectarian violence,” she said and demanded of the government to public Raja Zafarul Haq’s report regarding a controversial amendment.

She said that the country needs land reform and all lands should be under state custody to eliminate the poverty. “Lands should be equally distributed among the masses which will help in strengthening the national economy and this can be done just by a national government,” she said.

Across the world, poor, widows and unemployed were exempted from tax but in Pakistan, the government was looting the people under the umbrella of the General Sales Tax, the lawmaker said. Talking about the relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, she suggested that both the countries should come forward to resolve their issues peacefully.