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2011-10-14 India-Pakistan

[Dawn] The National Assembly turned into a virtual battleground on Thursday when members from the Pakistain Mohammedan League-N and Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
lunged at each other after exchanging harsh words and abuses.

Some of the members were seen throwing books and documents at each other and were about to indulge in a physical fight when senior politicians from the PPP and PML-N intervened and stopped the situation from deteriorating.

It all started when Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who had initially taken the floor to oppose the government's move to present the controversial Defence Housing Authority Bill, 2007, started heaping scorn on the MQM terming it a "fascist and terrorist party with a bully boy wing and involved in extortion". He said there had been no-go areas in Bloody Karachi.

"We will not let anyone bully us and will expose MQM's true face not only in the assembly, but outside parliament and even in Bloody Karachi," Chaudhry Nisar said while referring to the Supreme Court's Oct 6 verdict in the suo motu case on the law and order situation in Bloody Karachi and allegations levelled against the MQM by former provincial home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza. He said after the SC verdict the MQM owed a reply to the nation about its involvement in terrorism and extortion.

The session was presided over by Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi in the absence of Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, who left for Albania as head of a parliamentary delegation.

Chaudhry Nisar harshly criticised MQM's leaders for using "derogatory and abusive" language in their speeches in the assembly on Monday without caring that the house was being presided over by the wife of Dr Mirza. "I must appreciate the speaker for tolerating all such things against her husband," he said.

The house turned into a fish market when MQM's members who had been taking a verbal attack from the PML-N leader for up to 25 minutes got infuriated and stood up as soon as he threatened to tackle them physically.

"They blurt out whatever comes in their minds. If they cross the line again and use unparliamentary language then our hands will be around their necks," he said, only to invite the wrath of MQM's members sitting to his right.

An exchange of harsh words took place between MQM's MNA Sajid Ahmed and PML-N's Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali after which a number of members from both sides started raising slogans. Sensing that the members could indulge in a physical fight when MQM's Waseem Akhtar, Asif Hasnain and Sajid Ahmed charged towards Abid Sher Ali and Hanif Abbasi, senior PPP members, including Ministers Syed Khursheed Shah and Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
and PML-N's Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal intervened and disengaged the enraged politicians.

It took several MNAs to hold a furious Abid Sher Ali back after he had climbed onto a desk apparently to hurl himself on Sajid Ahmad.

After a brief interruption, the deputy speaker again gave the floor to Chaudhry Nisar. He alleged that the MQM had used parliament for political point scoring and passed derogatory remarks against Zulfikar Mirza instead of replying to the serious allegations levelled by the former minister against it.

He asked the deputy speaker to hold a debate on the allegations and give an opportunity to the former Sindh minister to prove his charges in the house. "Zulfikar Mirza's oath on the holy Koran obliges us at least to listen to the charges he has levelled."

Chaudhry Nisar said the people of Bloody Karachi could not be fooled by "gimmicks like singing songs on TV".

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