ISLAMABAD: It will not be as easy for President Asif Ali Zardari to address the joint sitting of parliament on coming Tuesday, as the main opposition party PML-N has decided to stage a protest during the presidential address.
Leader of the OppositionChaudhry Nisar in his recent press conference had hinted at PML-N’s protest during President Zardari’s address to the joint sitting of parliament.
“We have chalked out a strategy to protest against the release of Raymond Davis and raise other issues during Zardari’s speech but it will be done within the norms of parliament,” a senior PML-N leader told The News on Friday.
He said after consultation within the party, it had been decided that the PML-N parliamentarians, during the speech of President Zardari, would raise placards inscribed with slogans against government’s policies, but no attempt would be made to stop the president from addressing the Parliament.
The PML-N leader said the focus of the protest would be the issues of release of Raymond Davis, drone attacks, economic policies of the government and demand for return of national money deposited in Swiss banks.
It may be pointed out here that the opposition leader on Thursday directed his party members to withdraw a privilege motion filed against Sindh Assembly in the National Assembly Secretariat. “It is not our policy to take the assemblies to confrontation but at the same it is our right to register protest in a democratic and parliamentary way,” the PML-N leader said.
The gulf between the PPP and PML-N has further widened after the Sindh Assembly passed resolution against judiciary and Chaudhry Nisar following Supreme Court’s decision against appointment of NAB chairman and a statement from President Zardari mentioning Nawaz Sharif.
Leader of the OppositionChaudhry Nisar in his recent press conference had hinted at PML-N’s protest during President Zardari’s address to the joint sitting of parliament.
“We have chalked out a strategy to protest against the release of Raymond Davis and raise other issues during Zardari’s speech but it will be done within the norms of parliament,” a senior PML-N leader told The News on Friday.
He said after consultation within the party, it had been decided that the PML-N parliamentarians, during the speech of President Zardari, would raise placards inscribed with slogans against government’s policies, but no attempt would be made to stop the president from addressing the Parliament.
The PML-N leader said the focus of the protest would be the issues of release of Raymond Davis, drone attacks, economic policies of the government and demand for return of national money deposited in Swiss banks.
It may be pointed out here that the opposition leader on Thursday directed his party members to withdraw a privilege motion filed against Sindh Assembly in the National Assembly Secretariat. “It is not our policy to take the assemblies to confrontation but at the same it is our right to register protest in a democratic and parliamentary way,” the PML-N leader said.
The gulf between the PPP and PML-N has further widened after the Sindh Assembly passed resolution against judiciary and Chaudhry Nisar following Supreme Court’s decision against appointment of NAB chairman and a statement from President Zardari mentioning Nawaz Sharif.
