Staff Reporter
The PML-N’s senior leader and former prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, said Monday the Sindh-based PPP violated the parliamentary rules through its latest actions.
Earlier, the PPP’s candidate Yousaf Raza Gillani had been elected as the leader of the Opposition in the Senate against PML-N’s Azam Nazeer Tarar, who was termed a “controversial” choice by Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.
The move had deepened the rifts between Pakistan’s two major parties, with PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz Sharif criticising the PPP for sacrificing everything for a “minor, inconsequential office.”
Speaking to the media here in Islamabad, Abbasi congratulated the PPP for Gillani being elected Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.
