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LAHORE, Feb 27: There was a pandemonium in the house on Thursday when a PML-Q legislator read out a news item about PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s alleged accounts in Swiss banks.
When Brig Iftikhar (retired) started reading the news item on a point of order, PPP-Parliamentarian legislators stood up and started shouting and complaining to Speaker Afzal Sahi that the matter could not be discussed on a point of order.
Opposition leader Qasim Zia said newspapers daily published stories about alleged irregularities in Senate and PML-Q polls. He asked the treasury benches if they believed in those stories too.
He said the PPP chairperson’s case was subjudice and the government had not been able to prove any allegation despite all efforts during the last seven years.
BOGUS DEGREE: PML-N legislator Shaikh Amjad Aziz, whose privilege motion against the technical board chairman had been pending for the last few days due to absence of education minister Imran Masood, urged the speaker to form a committee to look into Mr Masood’s allegation that his (Shaikh’s) educational credentials were fake.
He suggested that the committee should comprise the law minister Raja Basharat, opposition leader Qasim Zia and PML-N parliamentary leader Rana Sanaullah Khan.
He claimed that secretaries of the secondary education board and the technical board had written in his favour declaring his credentials as genuine, and said that he was ready to present the same in the house.
The speaker adjourned the motion until the next session of the house.
POWER THEFT: PML-Q MPA Malik Iqbal Channar, through a privilege motion, brought attention of the house to the registration of a power theft case against him.
He said neither the power meters nor the houses where those were installed, were in his name or use. He alleged that the Shahdara Bahawalpur SDO had got the power theft case registered against him to malign him as well as the house and create a bad impression about legislators among the masses.
Urging the chair to keep the motion pending, law minister Raja Basharat said he had just received a copy of the case, and needed time to seek record from the department concerned.
