"Expunging the record is not enough," Mazari tells NA Speaker over Asif's outburst

ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Shireen Mazari submitted a privilege motion to Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, demanding an apology from PML-N lawmaker Khawaja Asif for using ‘unparliamentarily’ language against her in the National Assembly.

“I wish to submit a privilege motion pertaining to the breach of my privilege as a Member of the N ational Assembly (MNA) when Khwaja Asif used uparliamentary and personalized abuse of my person in the course of his speech during the budget session on 8 June 2016,” Mazari stated in the letter.

She said: “His (Asif’s) personalized attack on my person was unacceptable and his refusal to apologise further showed his deliberate intent to buse a women parliamentarian by attack her person.”

“I request action be taken against this personal abuse and name-calling by Khwaja Asif. Simply expunging the record is not enough and an apology on the floor of the House is essential,” Mazari added.

Copy of privilege motion submitted by Shireen Mazari

Earlier on Thursday, Minister for Water & Power Khawaja Asif sent an apology letter to NA Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq over his derogatory remarks against Mazari.

The PML-N minister earned opposition lawmakers’ ire for referring to Shireen Mazari as a "tractor trolley" and calling her voice ‘masculine’ after she interrupted his briefing on the loadshedding situation.

Asif’s apology was read out by Speaker Ayaz Sadiq in the National Assembly.

Copy of letter forwarded by Khwaja Asif 

Women MNAs staged walk out from the National Assembly in protest against Asif‘s remarks while Mazari insisted that he should personally apologise to her on the floor of the House. 

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