ISLAMABAD, Mar 21 (TNS): Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday came down hard on the opposition for campaigning against the 48th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers starting in Islamabad from Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The opposition had surpassed India and Israel in campaigning against the OIC moot, he said while talking to the media outside the Supreme Court alongside Energy Minister Hammad Azahar and Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Zaheer-ud-Din Babar Awan. Referring to Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari\u2019s threat of disrupting the OIC conference, he said \u201chow embarrassing it is for those who had said that we will see how the OIC takes place in Islamabad.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the final dates for OIC meeting were announced some eight months ago. If the opposition had submitted the resolution for convening the National Assembly session ten days later, nothing would have happened. \u201cWhat\u2019s harm in it if the NA session is convened on March 25 instead of March 22,\u201d he questioned, adding a motion was adopted by the National Assembly on January 21 to allow the exclusive use of its chamber for the 48th session of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers.<\/p>\n
He said all the efforts of opposition parties were seemed to be against the national interest. \u201cIt has been observed that Fazlur Rehman and his so-called alliance are making more efforts than India and Israel to sabotage the OIC conference,\u201d he added. Fawad said Prime Minister Imran Khan stood affirm in the face of opposition\u2019s threats and would foil their every bid against him and his government.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not the first time that Imran Khan is facing such challenges in his life\u2026 he always emerges victorious in such situations,\u201d he added. He said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf had given seven days to its dissident Members of National Assembly for returning to the party\u2019s fold.<\/p>\n
They would face disqualification for the lifetime, if not returned to the PTI, he added. Referring to phone call from the family members of the dissidents, he said the former were ashamed of the acts of the latter. He fired a broadside on the opposition for malicious campaign against National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser and the Pakistan Army.<\/p>\n
It had been noticed that some social media accounts of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz were maligning the Pakistan Army by changing their display with that of the PTI logo. The minister said those who dreamt to create wedge between the Pakistan Army and the government should know that the PTI was not the PML-N which, he alleged, hatched conspiracy against the institution on petty issues. \u201cPM Imran Khan and the armed forces is such a combination which ushers in the stability and progress of Pakistan,\u201d he said, adding it would continue in future.<\/p>\n
The institutions, he said, stood by the government as required by the Constitution.
\nFawad said the government, in a reference filed in the Supreme Court under Article-186 for interpretation of Article 63-A, had sought its advice on the status of those party members who were explicitly involved in horse-trading.
\n\u201cDoes the Constitution of the country allow the members of the Parliament to sell their loyalty and encourage \u201cLotacracy\u201d in the country,\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n
He said that PM Imran Khan could not be removed through the conspiracies as it was only the right of the masses to decide who should rule the country.
\nMulana Fazal ur Rehman should be asked that what he had done for the cause of Islam, he said while highlighting the prime minister\u2019s efforts that led to the adoption of a resolution in the United Nations for designation of March 15 as an \u201cInternational Day to combat the Islamophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan said that the NA Speaker had summoned the session of National Assembly on March 25 in line with the provisions of Constitution.
\nHe reminded the opposition of the motion unanimously passed by the lower house to provide the Assembly hall for the session of the OIC.<\/p>\n
Minister for Energy Hammad Azhar said Pakistan was passing through a \u2018defining moment\u2019 as the whole nation was witnessing whether the country was being pushed towards the old corrupt practices of horse-trading, turn-coating, and conscience-selling, or neat & clean politics of the elected members in the Parliament.
\nHe made it clear that the law against floor-crossing was passed by the past governments.<\/p>\n
Hammad said there was a clear divide between the public and the traders of consciousness that could be witnessed on the streets. \u201cBy the grace of Allah Almighty, there will be the victory of \u2018Naya Pakistan,\u2019 neat and clean politics, honesty, and supremacy of the law and the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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