Sheikh Rashid berates govt for bulldozing bills in parliament
Pakistan
Says people know elections on new census cann’t be held without amendment in constitution
RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) - Awami Muslim League chief and former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says the National Assembly with only nine lawmakers in attendance passed 53 bills in just two days, setting a world record of speedy working of democracy.
In his statement on the social networking site X (Twitter), Rashid said no industry was running in the country except the bill-manufacturing factory. The former interior minister said the lawmakers who did not even know what law was, were passing bills without realising that they would fall prey to their own legislation one day.
Instead of making lame excuses and cornering a party to the wall, they should openly admit that they were not in a position to go to the polls and show their faces to the public.
He said people were well aware that elections on new census could not be held without amendment to the constitution by a two-thirds majority. But the day they (rulers) revealed the truth to the people, would prove to be their last day in power, he said.
— Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (@ShkhRasheed) August 3, 2023
“Their days in power are numbered so they should make preparations for their departure. They (rulers) have a previous record of fleeing the country on a Rs 50 stamp paper,” stated the AML chief.
He said police officers of Rawalpindi were focusing on picking up political activists and their families - children and women - from their homes in the dark of night but they were not interested in dismantling the gambling and drug dens working in graveyards. They were extorting money from housing societies and misappropriating police funds.
“They will have to be alive to their legal duties at some time in future,” Rashid stated.
“When they violate sanctity of the four walls of houses, they say it's done on the orders of their superiors, although this is completely false,” said the senior politician.
“There are no orders from the higher-ups. These cops are doing all this at the behest of local political workers just to appease them to get themselves posted at their desired places. They have no idea how they are tarnishing the reputation of their institutions and digging a political grave for the government,” said Rashid.
The head of Awami Muslim League further said there was only one week left for political drama of the present dispensation.
He said the caretaker government and its prime minister would follow the same path on which the incumbent government was treading. He said the inflation had crushed the poor masses of the country.
“Inflict as much cruelty as you can on the people in the last seven days but this dark period is going to end. Even if elections are delayed, they (rulers) will remain a symbol of hatred in the eyes of the people,” said Rashid.
