In response to such demand, Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) leader and MNA Nafeesa Shah raised a point of order and condemned the PTI member’s demand and called for the convict’s punishment.
Source/Credit: Pak Watan
By Pak Watan | June 21, 2013
ISLAMABAD: In the national assembly of Pakistan, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Mujahid Ali Khan demanded an honorable release of former Punjab Governer Salman Taseer’s murderer on Thursday.
“Mumtaz Qadri should be released honorably,” he declared about Salman’s Taseer’s guard who was sentenced to death in 2011 for shooting Mr Taseer to death in Islamabad on Jan 4 the same year in an obvious retaliation against the governor’s statements against the perceived misuse of the controversial blasphemy law.
In response to such demand, Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) leader and MNA Nafeesa Shah raised a point of order and condemned the PTI member’s demand and called for the convict’s punishment.
She also regretted that some lawyers had garlanded Qadri during a hearing and recalled the assassination of the then minorities affairs minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, in Islamabad by unidentified gunmen who are yet to be traced.
Quickly after the surprising incident, Arif Alvi, a PTI member from Karachi, told the house, probably after consulting other party members, that what his colleague had said was the “view of an individual” and not a policy of the party, which he said would be guided by the country’s constitution.
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