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Friday, October 07, 2011
PPP-’N’ bad-mouthing begins
By Tanveer Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers from the ruling PPP and opposition PML-N, on Thursday, resorted to badmouthing and making derogatory remarks against each other’s leadership in Lower House of parliament when it resumed debate on load shedding in the country before the latter walked out from the House to take out a rally and stage a sit-in outside the Presidency.
Speakers from both the parties taking part in the debate appeared least interested in talking on this key issue and indulged in such indecent remarks against each other’s leadership that acting speaker Faisal Karim Kundi had to expunge the words by advising them to focus on the issue.
Following a bout of exchange of harsh language between PPP’s Fauzia Wahab and PML-N’s Abid Sher Ali, sanity finally prevailed when PPP chief whip Syed Khursheed Shah made an impatient appeal to both sides to respect each other’s leadership.
“If we keep on using bad language against each other’s leadership then we will have to wait for another 10 years to see democracy,” Shah remarked. On load shedding, which triggered a fierce protest from the opposition, Shah said that if opposition was interested in doing politics on this issue then it should be probed as to who was responsible for closing down Thar Coal project in 1997 and abandoning 25,000 MW projects initiated by the then PPP government.
He called upon the apex judiciary to also take suo motu notice as to who closed down these projects which had now led the country to darkness. Shah said the government was making efforts to bring down load shedding to 10-15 percent. “India is experiencing 40 percent load shedding but no one is mobilising his party workers to join protests and ransack public property,” Shah pointed out referring to PML-N President Nawaz Sharif’s call to his party workers to join public protests on power outages. PML-N’s Hanif Abbasi urged the government to stop “We are doing” mantra and do something practical to provide relief to masses. He said the government’s credibility had gone down to zero, as no one was ready to financial assist it.
He vowed to continue protests in the coming days as the party had planned outside the Presidency.
PML-N’s Javed Latif remarked that the country was facing the biggest threat from ‘Hussain Haqqani network’ and ‘Zardari network’ and urged that country should be enabled to get rid of them.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk