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Allied parties to promote
healthy democracy: Khosa
Salim Ahmed
Lahore— President of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Punjab Sardar
Zulifqar Ali Khosa on Thursday expressed the resolve that allied
parties in the coalition set up would promote healthy democratic and
political values.
He told newsmen in the Punjab Assembly building premises after
filing nomination papers of his party’s candidates for Speaker and
Deputy Speaker, Zulifqar Khosa, who is father of the PML-N nominee
for the prestigious slot of Punjab Chief Minister, Sardar Dost
Mohammad Khosa, said that the PML-Q was in-search of an escape
through what he called ‘’unjustified boycott and undemocratic
steps’’. He was of the view it was not a good tradition to make Dr.
Afgan’s incident as the basis for protest and boycott. “Why didn’t
PML-Q boycott in its tenure, when opponent parties’ parliamentarians
were dragged through back doors of the house and put in the prison
vans as well as picked up even from the mosques; and when
journalists and lawyers were manhandled on roads.”
PML-N leader also ruled out any contact with Q-League’s forward bloc
with regards to government formation.
“Mian Nawaz Sharif, Mian Shahbaz Sharif and myself used to address
election meetings of our candidates, who were fielded against the
candidates of Q-League’s forward bloc,” he added.
Khosa expressed the resolve that allied parties would promote
healthy democratic and political values. On this occasion, the PML-N’s
candidate for speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal said, “We will run the
house proceeding in an impartial manner, as it is the joint house of
treasury and opposition members.”
Candidate for Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood Ahmed Khan asserted that
they had been striving for rule of law in the country during last
eight years.
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