Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on opposition benches, specifically targeting the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Yusuf Raza Gilani, calling him a “compromising leader” and a “sold-out”.
PPP’s Gilani was among at least eight opposition senators who abandoned Last Friday’s Senate session, which allowed the PTI government to pass the crucial State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill from the opposition-controlled House – a development that had raised many eyebrows. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhary also said in a sarcastic tone Thank you Geelani to support the government indirectly.
Gilani, in his own Senate speech a day earlier, said They were being accused by “some turncoat” as an apparent reference to Qureshi and Chowdhury’s past as both are former leaders of the PPP.
Speaking on the floor of the Senate today, Qureshi responded to Geelani’s jibe by saying: “I am warning you, Honorable Member of the Senate, [that] Leader of the opposition is a compromising leader…don’t trust him […] Leaders of the Opposition who have been sold.”
Qureshi wondered why the opposition could not see other veteran politicians like PPP Senator Raza Rabbani and Sherry Rehman in its ranks for leadership roles.
Accusing Geelani of being elected senator by buying votes, he said that there are videos of Geelani’s son. vote tampering In last year’s Senate elections.
She also hit out at the PPP, recalling how she had initially agreed with the PML-N to support Senator Azam Nazir Tarar for the post of opposition leader, but later backed down.
Qureshi also raised doubts that Geelani had offered to resign as his opposition leader on Monday. to resign“He lied, he will remain and withdraw his resignation and be stuck in this chair. It was a drama,” FM Qureshi raised repeatedly.
Gilani had said on Monday that the agenda for Friday’s session was released hours before it was due, arguing that lawmakers should have been given more time to discuss the legislation.
Qureshi today rejected Geelani’s excuse and slammed the opposition for being “ignorant, clueless and naive” about its presentation in the Senate after it had already been passed by the National Assembly and the International Monetary Fund. Dates were set for talks with.
‘Contempt of the Senate’
Responding to Qureshi’s rebuke, Gilani termed the foreign minister’s attack against him as “contempt of the Senate”.
“This is just contempt of the Senate,” he reiterated, speaking to media persons in his office in parliament after the Senate session.
Gilani said Pakistan’s foreign minister “fell so low for no rhyme or reason” during his speech, which had tarnished the country’s image.
“Has my election as a senator offended him today?” Gilani, who was elected to a seat in the Senate last year from Islamabad vote In March, a rhetorical question was raised.