- Omar Ayub’s hard-hitting remarks set off ruckus in NA.
- He slams coalition govt for bulldozing laws.
- “Our social gathering management has offered us,” says Aurangzeb Khichi.
The Nationwide Meeting session was adjourned for an indefinite interval after Opposition Chief Omar Ayub Khan made a fiery speech on the ground of the home in opposition to bulldozing key payments enhancing variety of judges in superior judiciary and growing mounted tenure of all three providers chiefs.
His remarks got here a day after parliament handed a number of payments, together with “The Supreme Courtroom Variety of Judges (Modification) Invoice, 2024, the Supreme Courtroom (Follow and Process) (Modification) Invoice, 2024, and Pakistan Military Modification Invoice, 2024, with the bulk vote amid opposition’s sturdy protest.
In his deal with, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Ayub referred to as the passage of six payments a “shameful incident” and branded the coalition regime as a “authorities of thieves”, triggering a ruckus within the Home.
The livestream on the NA’s YouTube channel went clean after the PTI chief’s remarks. The livestream resumed when Aurangzeb Khan Khichi — a PTI-backed impartial lawmaker who voted in favour of the twenty sixth Modification by defying social gathering line — began his speech.
Addressing the Home, Khichi stated: “Standing beneath these pure names of Allah, I say that will Allah destroy me if I’ve taken even a single penny [as a bribe].”
“That is true that our social gathering management has offered us.”
He clarified that he didn’t obtain a single penny from anybody, APP reported.
The lawmaker claimed that the ahead bloc was on the cardboard in PTI on that day which he foiled, and the time would show it.
He was talking on level of order when PTI lawmakers began sloganeering which compelled the NA deputy speaker to learn the prorogation order signed by President Asif Ali Zardari.