The PPP said on Thursday that the government is planning to attack Sindh House in Islamabad after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) claimed that some of its MLAs were hiding in the building at the behest of the opposition.
The government claimed that the opposition had detained some ruling party MPs at Sindh House ahead of the vote on a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan following a statement by Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervez Elahi that around a dozen linked to PTI MNA was. gone missing’.
was the premiere said In a public address on Wednesday that opposition leaders sat with a “pile of money” in Sindh House to buy the loyalty of Treasury MPs and asked the Election Commission to take action against the alleged horse-trading.
PPP leader Faisal Karim Kundi on Tuesday confirmed stay Some MPs at Sindh House during a press conference with PPP MNA Shazia Mari. “Every member has a right to be there. These members are from the opposition and our allies,” he said. He said that the MNA was kept there because he feared that he might be kidnapped before the no-confidence motion.
Mary had also denied the Prime Minister’s “fake news” that PTI dissidents were kept at Sindh House during the press conference with Kundi.
PPP MNAs — Abdul Qadir Patel, Abdul Qadir Mandokhel, Abid Hussain Bhayo, Javed Shah Jilani, Ehsan Mazari, Naveed Dero and Mehreen Bhutto — issued a joint statement early Thursday alleged that “[Prime Minister] Imran Khan’s government [hell]bent on [carrying out] Terrorism” and is planning to attack Sindh House.
He claimed he had information on Islamabad Police and PTI’s Tiger Force planning an “attack”. The PPP MPs said the government would be responsible if there was any damage to Sindh House facilities or their members and it would be a violation of the law and the Constitution.
The PPP members said that they had requested the Sindh government to provide them accommodation at Sindh House as they were not feeling safe in the Parliament House. Proceeding Islamabad police last week to disperse members of Ansarul Islam, a uniformed volunteer force of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, who had entered the lodge in large numbers.
The lawmakers said they had sought protection from the Sindh police as it was their legal and constitutional right as Islamabad police had “illegally conducted raids and put people’s lives in danger”.
‘Serious violation’
Meanwhile, Maritime Affairs Minister Ali Zaidi questioned the grounds of the Sindh government gathering 400 police guards of the Special Security Unit (SSU) in Islamabad.
He wrote to the Establishment Secretary demanding a probe against Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of SSU Maqsood Memon for his “blatant violation” in allowing the force to assemble in the federal capital. Zaidi said that the DIG should be suspended till the investigation is completed.
A day earlier, Zaidi had alleged that the force was deployed at Sindh House to guard a “bag” of money used to “bribe” the PTI MNA.