Bilawal demands resignation of NA speaker, deputy Speaker

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari demanded the resignation of Speaker Asad Qaisar and Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri for their alleged preference of treasury members over the opposition in the National Assembly.

The demand came in the backdrop of NA session which was marred with protests by the Pakistan Peoples Party members for not allowing Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to speak in the National Assembly. “It’s the second time that I wasn’t allowed to speak in the National Assembly, they want to censure the voice of an MNA from Larkana. I condemn the attitude of the speaker and deputy speaker.”

Bilawal said that such discrimination wasn’t even seen in the assemblies of General Zia ul Haq and General (retd) Pervaiz Musharraf. “By not allowing me to speak they have insulted the voters of my constituency,” he said.

The speaker failed to protect the two young parliamentarians from Waziristan, he said.

The PPP chairman said that the government today violated the right to free trial by arresting former president Asif Ali Zardari through NAB. “The NAB came in the Zardari house without arrest orders. Zardari gave his custody in protest.”

Bilawal said that there is no difference between PM Imran’s New Pakistan and the times of Musharraf and Zia. The PPP leader said that under a conspiracy the government is now aiming to target judiciary.

“We won’t compromise an inch on our stances on the 18th amendment and military courts,” he said.” Whatever happening with the opposition is not accountability but political vendetta.”