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Pak lawmakers back PM; govt slams protests
Amid fears of violence and army intervention in the coup-prone nation, a cornered Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday turned to Parliament for support with his government slamming the protests as a \"mutiny against Pakistan\".
Islamabad: Amid fears of violence and army intervention in the coup-prone nation, a cornered Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday turned to Parliament for support with his government slamming the protests as a "mutiny against Pakistan".
Leaders from across the political spectrum backed Sharif at an emergency joint session of the Parliament convened to support the Prime Minister and discuss the current impasse.
Most of the leaders expressed their resolute support for Sharif in the wake of anti-government protests headed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT). "This Parliament should remove the misconception that this is a democratic process. This is not a protest, not a dharna or a political gathering. This is mutiny against Pakistan," Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar told Parliament. "They reached the gates of the Supreme Court, of Parliament... Yesterday they entered another state building and chanted slogans of 'Tahir-ul-Qadri Zindabad'," he said, referring to the storming of the PTV Islamabad office. Nisar said the protesters were armed and had support of up to 1,500 trained militants of an extremist organisation which he did not name. Dubbing the protesters as "intruders", he urged the Parliament to declare their actions as a mutiny against the state and asked lawmakers to "guide" the government in dealing with them. The Supreme Court, while hearing a set of petitions against sit-ins of Khan and Qadri, on Tuesday issued notices to all parliamentary parties as well as to PAT to resolve the ongoing political impasse within the parameters of the Constitution.
PTI leader Hashmi quits parliament
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) president Javed Hashmi on Tuesday resigned from the membership of parliament, a day after his startling revelation that the current political crisis in the country was scripted.
"Honourable speaker, as for resignations, I resign from my seat...I am going back to the people of Pakistan," Dawn online quoted him as saying during a joint session of parliament. He said that no PTI member resigned willingly. "People did not resign of their own will but I am resigning now," he said.
