Law, order, price hike and power outages: PML-N decides to give government tough time in National Assembly, Senate

Khawaja Saad Rafiq, a leader of PML-N, has said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has decided to give the government a tough time in the National Assembly and Senate over certain issues, including law and order, price hike and power outages. Talking to newsmen here on Monday, he said that our party has submitted adjournment motions on the hike in electricity tariff, POL prices and the law and order situation in Karachi.
He said they would confront the government on its failure to control price hike and maintaining law and order in the country. The other issues, which the party would raise in the upper and lower houses, include the controversial conviction of Dr Aafia Siddiqui by a US court.
It would also present its views on India's recent offer of dialogue with Pakistan. Saad Rafiq said the Asian Development Bank's report on the rental power plants would also be discussed in the house. Khawaja Saad Rafiq said he had submitted an adjournment motion regarding an incident in the National University of Modern Languages where one of its professors, Tahir Malik, was roughed up by NUML Registrar Brigadier Obaidullah Ranjha (Retd) after an argument.
He said his party would also present an adjournment motion against an increase in petroleum prices. "The government's corruption in the rental power plants, pointed out by the Asian Development Bank, will be taken up by the PML-N," Saad added.