Islamabad sit-in: Government has lost its writ, says Khursheed Shah

SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Khursheed Shah said on Monday that prolonged Faizabad sit-in indicates that the government has lost its writ in the country.

Speaking to journalists, Shah said that it is regrettable to see that few people have sealed Islamabad causing distress to millions of people living in and commuting to the capital.

"As many as two million people live in Islamabad, people all over the world visit it,” he said, adding that, “If the government doesn’t want to take action against the protesters it should quit. The sit-in shows the government is weak and indicates the end of its writ.”

Responding to a question, he said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif should follow the constitutional way which is to respect the decisions of the court.

He said that it was the Nawaz-led government, not the judiciary, which allowed former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf to leave the country.

“Nawaz should ask about Musharraf from his then interior minister,” he said.

Shah said that in the country’s 70-year history, only the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) completed its five-year tenure.

“We want Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-government to complete its tenure,” he added.

The PPP leader said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s demand for early elections is ‘unnecessary’.