Islamabad:
Pakistan’s Parliament on Tuesday touched a new low when lawmakers from the treasury and Opposition hurled abuses and threw copies of official price range documents at every single other, injuring one of the female members.
Lower home of the Parliament, the National Assembly, was convened to hold debate on the 2021-22 price range which was presented by Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin on Friday.
The treasury benches started a noisy protest when Leader of the Opposition Shehbaz Sharif attempted to make the customary speech to open the forum for debate on the price range.
Within no time, the home turned into a battlefield when some lawmakers came face to face, major to exchange of hot words, followed by abuses and ultimately threw copies of price range documents.
A video clip of ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Awan shouting expletives at the Opposition went viral on social media.
At least one PTI female lawmaker, Maleka Bokhari, was supplied remedy soon after a document hit on her eye but no significant harm was completed.
Shehbaz, the president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), later tweeted that PTI was a fascist party.
“Today the whole nation saw on their TV screens how the ruling party resorted to hooliganism & even naked abuse. Only goes to show how ethically shallow Imran Khan and his whole party are and how PTI has turned into a fascist and abusive party. Unfortunate!” he tweeted.
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry stated the PML-N was accountable for the unrest simply because one of its members made use of foul words which forced some members of PTI to react angrily.
Interestingly, senior PTI leaders have been smiling and even applauding their rowdy members for providing challenging time to the leader of the opposition when he was producing the speech.
It appears to be a retaliation for the protest by the Opposition parties on Friday when Tarin was producing the price range speech.
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