ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has decided to take theinstitutions Headon in case of Nawaz Sharif ouster and has now started tospeak openly against the Military and Judiciary nexus behind the overthrowof the Prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

A senior federal minister on Monday accused the judiciary of beinghand-in-glove with the country’s powerful establishment in a scheme aimedat disqualifying former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

During a discussion in the Senate on some opposition leaders’ recentremarks against parliament, a close aide to the deposed prime minister andMinister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan observed that “thejudiciary, with the connivance of the establishment, disqualified NawazSharif”.

The upper house on Monday initiated a debate on the supremacy of parliamentwhere the major opposition party, the Pakistan Peoples Party, appeared onthe same page as the government when it came to criticism of PTI and AMLleaders Imran Khan and Sheikh Rashid, respectively, for theiranti-parliament speeches.

On the other hand, PTI members defended the remarks of their party chiefand PTI’s parliamentary leader of the party in the Senate Noman Wazir saidhis party chairman used the word ‘curse on parliament’ to reflect thebody’s poor performance.

Taking part in the debate from the government side, Mushahidullah Khan saidusing such derogatory words against the country’s most sacred institutionwas tantamount to committing treason.

He requested the Senate to suggest some action against both the leaders asthey had crossed all limits in their lust for power.

PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar was of the opinion that such remarks aboutparliament had strengthened all the anti-democracy elements who wanted toundermine the democratic process in the country.

PTI Senator Noman Wazir said that the performance of parliament was belowaverage despite the many resolutions passed, and that the government thatwas not serious in implementing the decisions of parliament.

“I have never seen a weaker institution than this parliament,” he said,adding that no other words than this could be used for it.

During a discussion on the mysteriously disappeared activist Raza MehmoodKhan, who went missing from Lahore on December 2, Senator Farhatullah Babarsaid it was intriguing that the majority of bloggers and activists who wentmissing were those who were advancing alternative theories of nationalsecurity and disagreed with official narratives.