ISLAMABAD – Information and Broadcasting Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain onThursday said that the cabinet has expressed concern over the treatmentmeted out to federal ministers in the Senate.
Briefing the news persons here on Thursday, Chaudhry quoted the PrimeMinister as saying that nobody would be allowed to humiliate the ministers.
He said that Defense Minister Pervaiz Khattak has been tasked to look intothe issue and present his report.
Fawad questioned how the House can be run without ministers.
He said the ministers have a vital role in House proceedings and added theycannot perform their tasks if the attitude of the chairman did not change.
In his speech in Senate, he did not use unparliamentarily words and he onlystated that Rs 42 trillion were given to Baluchistan government in tenyears and during past five years opposition parties had been ruling theprovince, so they should be asked where they had spent the funds.
On the contrary, he said that Mushahidullah Khan used derogatory remarksagainst the Prime Minister and himself but he was not asked to apologize.
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Fawad Hussain said that he had asked the chairman to form a parliamentarycommittee to probe the alleged embezzlement of Rs 42 trillion developmentfunds given to the Baluchistan government during the last 10 years and onthis he was being asked to apologize.
He said it was strange that when the PTI leadership talks about thecorruption and rights of the poor, the privilege of the House members isbreached but privilege of the masses is never breached by loot and plunderof national resources.
On the issue of National Assembly’s standing committees, he said that theopposition demand of audit of Nawaz Sharif government project by his realbrother Shehbaz Sharif was ludicrous and could not be accepted.
He said the PTI stance was based on the principles that it had the right tonominate its chairman till the audit of PML-N era is done, when the auditof PTI projects would come, opposition would be given free hand to appointchairman of its choice. – APP
