Islamabad, Dec. 14 (TNS): Opposition leader in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah, responding to Sadiq’s statement, said the speaker seemed to be telling the “inside story”, and that the situation “seemed suspicious” to him as well.
Sadiq, while speaking to a TV channel, a day earlier, said that though the continuity of the democratic system was critical in ensuring the strengthening of institutions in the country, he “does not see the [incumbent] assembly completing its tenure”.
“The way his party is under pressure to hold early elections — it can be seen how the roads are being blocked and fights are being fought everywhere — everyone understands the dangers which Pakistan is going through,” Shah said cryptically.
“We should move forward with our eyes open,” he warned.
Later, while speaking in the assembly, Shah added that attempts to reduce the Parliament to a rubber stamp for one individual’s decisions will be defeated by the opposition.
PPP Senator Aitzaz Ahsan, while speaking to the media, said the NA speaker’s statements were being twisted.
He also said that blaming a ‘hidden hand’ for its troubles is a regular practice of the PML-N.
“If the assemblies have to be broken, the decision has to be taken by the prime minister,” he said.
