Bilawal, Zardari slam PM Imran’s NRO statement

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement of the opposition using the walkout in the National Assembly as a “pressure tactic to seek a National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and evade accountability for corruption in NAB cases.”

When asked about the prime minister’s statement, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Imran Khan did not know what was going on in Parliament. “He [PM Imran] does not know what is happening in Parliament. He had promised to become the first prime minister to come to Parliament every Wednesday and answer the opposition’s questions but that proved to be false. All his promises are false.”

PPP President Asif Ali Zardari stressed that the prime minister “does not know the definition of NRO.”

When asked by a reporter if the government was in a position to give an NRO, Zardari replied: “The government is not in a position to give anything.” 

Earlier,  Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif termed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s comment as “baseless”.

“This allegation is so baseless that it is not even appropriate for me to respond,” Sharif told reporters. 

During a session of the NA on Monday, the opposition walked out of the House as opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif demanded that there be a rebidding for the contracts of the Mohmand dam as the entire procedure seemed questionable.