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2019-03-09 India-Pakistan
‘Sad day’ in PA as opposition members ‘manhandle’ colleague
[DAWN] Speaker Siraj Durrani on Thursday called it a "sad day" in Sindh Assembly’s history when a politician was "attacked" by fellow members after harsh personal remarks were made by the leader of the opposition, overtly targeting the chair.

It was a raucous day that initially mirrored the previous two sittings of the current session when the three large parties on the opposition benches went on to create hullaballoo mainly on the provincial government’s refusal to make the opposition leader as head of the Public Accounts Committee of Sindh.

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
the proceedings turned graver on Thursday when Leader of the Opposition Firdous Shamim Naqvi, while protesting against, what he called, lesser representation given to the major opposition parties on the business advisory council, referred to some reports broadcast in a section of the electronic media asking how "that much amount of undeclared money and jewellery was found in your lockers".

Mr Naqvi’s words led everyone on the treasury benches to rise in their seats.

Everyone on the opposition benches, barring three members belonging to the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain and the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, stood up chanting slogans against the government.

The opposition leader’s words appeared to hurt Speaker Durrani, who said what was being claimed as the undeclared jewellery from his lockers had belonged to his family for more than a century and was duly declared in his tax documents.

"I know how much you respect me, my office. The whole world knows how much a speaker is respected here," said the speaker.

Posted by Fred 2019-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Pakistan 

#1 I always laugh at the PA headlines, as I know it's not PeeAye, but often the gist is every bit as believable all the same.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-09 07:52||   2019-03-09 07:52|| Front Page Top

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