No ‘stranger’ can sit in parliament: Nisar

ISLAMABAD – Terming Yousuf Gilani a ‘stranger’, PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali has said his party will make it a point that no stranger could be allowed to sit in the parliament.“PML-N will use all the options to get the apex court verdict against Yousuf Raza Gilani implemented”, the Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly told a press conference here on Sunday.At Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s claims about plundering of national wealth by Sharif brothers, Nisar remarked that a PPP minister had been posing excessively smart for the last past two days after conviction of his mentor. He warned Malik by saying that he was crossing his limits by levelling false allegations against the PML-N leadership.He clarified that PML-N leaders received a loan of Rs49 million but repaid twice as much including the mark up. He questioned as to why Rehman Malik was bringing up the allegations against PML-N leadership after 18 years.Confirming that PML-N high command will flock today to the capital for devising a plan to force Prime Minister Gilan out of his office, Nisar said his party would talk to all political forces including the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf of Imran Khan which he said supported the PML-N plan to launch countrywide protest movement against the rulers to get the apex court orders implemented. Nisar said the coalition partners of the PPP were equally to be blamed for non-implementation of the court order.Taking serious view of the reported remarks of Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naek on the notices issued by Supreme Court to the national assembly speaker as well Election Commission of Pakistan, Nisar sought an independent role for the assembly in this connection. He lamented that both prime minister and president of the country stand convicted.Mounting heap of scorn on Gilani, the PML-N leader said that instead of resigning from his office after his conviction, the prime minister had been creating a storm out of it. “Gilani is exaggerating the issue just to divert public attention from the illegal deposits of $60 million in the Swiss accounts,” he added while referring to looted public money allegedly stashed away in foreign banks by President Zardari.Sneering at PPP leadership’s ‘false perception’ of their popularity among public, Nisar said his party was ready to take their challenge in general elections if they are ready for a real test.

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