SUKKUR (Online): Opposition leader in National Assembly (NA) Syed Khurshid Shah has said staging protest and dharna is legal and constitutional right of every party but locking down any city is illegal.
“we consider staging protest and dharna a constitutional right but shutting down any city is illegal. We will see arrests are being made on what basis”, he said this while talking to media men here Saturday.
He said PPP had given jobs to thousands of people during its tenure. Government has failed to evolve prudent economic policies. Unemployment is on rise. They say they are constructing roads. Will poor and jobless people lick roads. There will be roads and development if there are people.
He alleged government had obtained loan 7200 billion rupees loan during the last threeyears. Motorway and port Qasim have been got mortgaged. There is no medicine in hospitals.
Nawaz Sharif is a monarch like Prime Minister. He should appear before Supreme Court (SC). He will appear.
He stated PM is not only upset but very upset in the prevailing situation.
Citing to Imran Khan November 2 dharan he said Imran Khan does not know how to do politics and Nawaz Sharif does not know how to run a country. When PM comes under pressure then he becomes ready to accept all the demands of opposition, he added.
Responding to a question he said democracy strengthens the country and if democracy is under threat then PPP will be on the forefront for its protection.
Threats are looming large on borders, he said adding enemy is on borders and in this situation an internal war is not in favour of politicians at all.
Khan has seized on the Panama Papers scandal as a fresh opportunity to try to unseat Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Earlier, the former cricketing hero staged protests in Islamabad for months in 2014 over alleged electoral fraud but failed to topple the prime minister.
He said that transparent investigation should be launched in the May 12 massacre and the huge cache of weapons found from a house in Karachi’s Aziziabad area.
Leaked documents from the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Panama in April showed Sharif’s sons Hassan and Hussain, and daughter Maryam, owned at least three offshore holding companies registered in the British Virgin Islands.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which studied the papers, said those companies had engaged in at least $25 million in property and acquisition deals.
Nawaz Sharif has claimed his children have done nothing illegal, but opponents accuse the family of using the tax haven to launder stolen money and dodge taxes.
