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LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) today (Friday) criticised the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) move to attain the post of Senate Opposition leader, saying it was a ‘setback’ for the Pakistan Democratic Movement.
This was stated by PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal, while talking to journalists outside Jati Umra in Lahore along with Rana Sanaullah and Azam Nazeer Tarar.
“If the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) senators are included in this move, then indeed PDM’s objectives, its struggle and the alliance have suffered a setback,” said the former interior minister.
Talking about BAP senators, Ahsan Iqbal said, “Entire Islamabad knows on whose directions they vote. Such a move was not in line with the PDM’s transparent politics.”
“If the post of Opposition leader was so necessary for the PPP, the party should have informed Nawaz Sharif about it. He would have happily ceded the post to them,” he added.
Ahsan Iqbal further said all Opposition parties expressed their support for the PML-N’s Azam Nazeer Tarrar for the post of Senate Opposition leader. “Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Hasil Bizenjo, Akhtar Mengal, Mahmood Khan Achakzai and other leaders supported Azam Tarar,” he added.
He also said that the party was hurt that the Awami National Party (ANP), which is part of the PDM, took the ‘unilateral decision’ to support the PPP’s bid for the Senate Opposition leader slot.