ISLAMABAD - Opposition Leader in National Assembly Mian Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Monday that National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar had violated the constitution by using delaying tactics to convene session, requisitioned by opposition parties for vote of no-confidence against prime Minister Imran Khan.
Shehbaz Sharif who is Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president while talking to reporters along with other opposition leaders outside the court asked the NA Speaker what difficulty he had been facing in convening the session of the Lower House. The speaker did not convene the session deliberately. He added.
He added that due to the meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Countries (OIC), the opposition delayed the long march.
PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the PTI government and the Speaker of the National Assembly violated the constitution. “The opposition hopes that the judiciary will take the side of the constitution, law and democracy, and not any particular party,” he added.
He said that the political parties did not approach the court but the bar councils. “The PPP is thankful to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for taking notice of the attack on the Sindh House and calling all the parties to present their viewpoint. We have to politically struggle in the Parliament and the constitutional and legal struggle will be in the courts,” he said. “This government is running away from the no-confidence motion, so much so, that it has resorted to violating the constitution.”
He said the government first attacked the lodges and arrested the members of the National Assembly. The government attacked the Sindh House when the members went there for protection. The attack on Sindh House is an attack on the federation and democracy. The government is trying to push the Speaker towards Article 6. Every member of the assembly has the right to vote, he added. Meanwhile, Shehbaz Sharif criticised PM Imran Khan for praising the so-called Indian foreign policy. “Imran Khan's praise for the so-called "independent" Indian foreign policy is the most bizarre statement to date. India, particularly under Modi, has accused Pakistan of terrorism, opposed CPEC & hurt our interests globally. It has robbed Kashmiris of their statehood,” he said in a tweet.
