ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders have demanded putting prime minister’s name on Exit Control List (ECL) and also asked National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser to step down for being ‘biased’ or the opposition would remove him through a no-confidence motion.
Addressing a joint press conference in Islamabad on Sunday with Syed Naveed Qamar and Faisal Karim Kundi, PPP Senator Sherry Rehman directed her criticism to Prime Minister Imran Khan and said that his countdown had begun.
“It’s opposition’s super over now as the entire country has expressed its distrust in the government,” she pointed out.
She stated that the PPP would never resort to abuses, asking the government not to take the country towards a constitutional and political crisis.
She lambasted the government’s failure to timely understand the gravity of India’s ‘accidental’ missile landing in Pakistan and said: “A nuclear missile fell in our territory. Why did the government take four days to fully understand the gravity of the situation?”
She also came down hard on the government’s failure to handle the worsening economic affairs and said: “Now even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed its disability to so something.”
The PPP Senator also deplored a federal minister’s statement of becoming a suicide bomber against the opposition and said that the government ministers were even ready to burn their own home and the country.
“They have led the country to crises. Their government is now falling apart,” she stated.
Former National Assembly deputy speaker Faisal Karim Kundi said that the government was making attempts to hoodwink overseas Pakistanis again.
He also blamed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for using delaying tactics in foreign funding case and added: “To date, the National Assembly speaker has not revealed who installed cameras in the Parliament.”
He also demanded that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) conduct hearing of the foreign funding case on a daily basis.
He asked National Assembly Asad Qaiser to resign or he would be removed through a no-confidence motion otherwise. PPP MNA Naveed Qamar said that democracy worked when there was the rule of law, adding that the National Assembly speaker had no authority to count votes of parliamentarians. “He is clearly showing bias,” he said.
