Monday, October 19, 2015

Pakistan - 'PM should have taken parliamentary leaders into confidence before US visit'

Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has asserted that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should have taken the parliamentary leaders of different political parties into confidence before proceeding on his visit to the United States.

Talking to journalists here, he hoped that the prime minister would discuss Afghanistan and India issues with the US president and officials. Khursheed said that some federal cabinet ministers had been creating an awkward situation for Prime Minister Nawaz by reviving the dead issue of the construction of Kalabagh Dam.

He said that the people of three provinces had rejected the project and the assemblies passed resolutions over the issue. He urged the prime minister to take notice of the propaganda over Kalabagh Dam. He said that he had not yet contacted Dr Asim Hussain – former petroleum minister, who is in the custody of Rangers for alleged corruption.

He said that if the local bodies elections were to be postponed for five to 10 days due to Muharram, it would not affect the election process. Talking about the Karsaz incident, he said that it was the result of a security lapse of the then government.

Khursheed said, “We all salute the martyrs of the Karsaz incident, indeed all the martyrs of democracy, and vow to carry forward the democratic and egalitarian mission of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party as envisioned by its leaders Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto.”

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