HYDERABAD, June 17: Leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has defended the combined opposition’s protest in the assembly during the budget speech of provincial Finance Minister Syed Sardar Ahmed, saying that it was absolutely in line with parliamentary norms.

He was talking to journalists at the residence of MPA Ghulam Nabi Shoro in Kotri on Tuesday.

Sindh People’s Party Parliamentarians leader said that every assembly member had the right to speak on a point of order and he had stood on a point of order, seeking permission of the speaker to speak on his resolution pertaining to murder of former Sindh Assembly speaker Abdul Razik Khan.

“The speaker first allowed me to move the resolution but soon he disallowed me to speak on the resolution and allowed the finance minister to present budget and it was followed by rumpus in the house,” he further said.

He contended that the combined opposition wanted to remind the government that if the formula of the National Finance Commission award was not changed, Sindh would continue to suffer a loss of Rs8 to 10 billion per year.

To a question as to why the Greater Thal Canal issue was not taken up in the National Assembly and the Senate, he said that it would be taken up in both the houses of parliament once the row over the Legal Framework Order was over.

The PPP leader said that the Anti-Greater Thal Canal Action Committee would decide whether or not to participate in the June 25 protest of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz in Karachi.