- PPP leader urges PM to share details of meeting with CJP
CHINIOT: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) North Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira on Sunday urged Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to not “bring the Senate into disrepute”.
Qamar Zaman Kaira expressed these views while addressing a press conference.
Hitting back at the premier for criticising the Senate chairman and its newly elected members over horse-trading allegations, he said, “The PM himself is buying votes.”
Abbasi, while addressing an event in Dera Ghazi Khan on Saturday, had said that if the politics of the current times meant electing a chairman with bought votes, then the system needs to be corrected.
“Should our senators be those who buy votes of other people? Should the chairman be a person who bought votes? This is the quality of politics nowadays. This is the wrong we have to correct with the power of votes,” he had asserted.
The PM had called out Sanjrani for buying votes, saying, “You should take an oath of honesty and issue a statement saying that you haven’t bought the top slot.”
“I was advised by people not to intervene in Senate election, but I will keep interfering if something wrong is going on,” the PM had added.
‘SHARE DETAILS OF PM-CJP MEETING’:
Over the much-talked about meeting between Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar and the prime minister recently, Kaira said that the PM should share details of the meeting.
“Why did you [PM] go to the chief justice, please tell us,” the PPP leader said, adding that the PM said that he went as a ‘faryadi’. “What faryaad [wish] did you share with the CJP?”
“If the premier is so helpless, he should just resign,” the PPP leader remarked. “There is a lot of confusion in the government. Nawaz wants to be the only one calling the shots.”
On Friday, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had said that he had Mian Saqib Nisar as a “faryadi” (pleader) of the country, adding that he had hoped that the CJP had “understood my words”.
He was referring to the reported remarks of CJP Nisar during a hearing on Thursday wherein he had said that his job was to listen to the pleas of every “faryadi”.
‘NAWAZ IS A LIAR’:
Criticising former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Kaira remarked that Nawaz lied while speaking in the National Assembly about his assets. “Supreme Court’s verdict states that Nawaz Sharif is a liar.”
The courts punish all those who break the law, Kaira added.
