KARACHI: The President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi to Karachi and discussed the tense between Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim league (Nawaz)
As per detail, PPP and PML-N delegation called on Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to discuss differences between the PPP and the PML-N in Punjab, PPP Chief Whip Ijaz Jakhrani, PML-N Senator Rana Sanaullah, Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry are participating in the meeting. PPP leader Naveed Qamar is also reaching the Speaker’s Chamber.
Senator Rana Sanaullah Khan has said that talks between government and PPP in Speaker’s Chamber end inconclusive and PPP will continue protest and walkout of session today. He said PM Shehbaz was supposed to meet President Asif Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto but this meeting could not took place due to PM’s visit to Malaysia. Rana Sana said the PM will return home tomorrow and will address PPP’s concerns. He made it clear that PPP has not demanded apology from Punjab CM.
Also on Monday, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Ali Qasim Gilani said that although the party did not engage in politics of division and hatred, still if someone would point fingers at the party leadership, he and others would respond.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore with PPP Central Punjab Information Secretary Shahzad Saeed Cheema sitting alongside him, he said that the Punjab government had crossed the ‘Red Line’ on several occasions. “We have not entered into an agreement with the provincial government that we will always heap praise on it,” he said, and added that the situation had come to a pass that now it appeared as if the PPP was in the opposition.
He also lamented that inappropriate language was used against the first lady of Pakistan. “The PPP is going to distribute the ration worth Rs2.50 million among the flood-hit people.”Gilani lamented that on September 25, Punjab CM Maryam used inappropriate language against the Sindh government. “Can anybody tell me, was it the PPP or the PML-N whose leadership took the lead in the use of offensive language against each other?” he questioned.
Accepting Sindh Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon’s challenge for a debate, Punjab Information Minister Azma Bukhari said on Monday that had the Punjab government not been prepared, the loss from the floods in the province would have been colossal.Addressing a press conference in Lahore, she said that most of the people could not see the Punjab government performing. She lamented that whenever the province was confronted with a difficult situation, some people engaged in politics. “Those who cannot do anything, merely talk.” Azma informed that cheques would be distributed among the flood-affected people from October 17.
On the occasion, she also announced an increase in the salaries of Civil Defence employees by Rs15,000. In reference to a press conference addressed by Sharjeel on Sunday, she said the detractors of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz were so frightened by her performance that one of the ministers had to address a presser on a weekly off. “If one gets something to learn from sisters, do not feel shy to learn,” she advised. “Why don’t I take you around Lahore and south Punjab so that you could see the development taking place in the Punjab?” the minister questioned.
