Calling National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri’s ruling of April 3, 2022, under which he had thrown out the opposition’s no-trust motion on the ground that it was part of a foreign conspiracy, senior PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira called it a ‘suicide attack’ by the PTI government not only on the parliament but also on the democratic system as well as on the country,
Speaking to the media person outside the Supreme Court (SC) before the start of the hearing of deputy speaker’s ruling case, he said this move by the ruling party would have horrifying consequences. “The deputy speaker, in his ruling, had declared all members of the opposition traitors,” he regretted, and added, “The entire country is bewildered as to what had happened in Parliament on that fateful day.”
Kaira went on to add that the Supreme Court was presently seized with a ‘historic’ case, and its verdict would have far-reaching consequences. Senior PPP leader added that so far only Aleem Khan.—INP
