National Assembly has enjoyed no autonomy or power during the last four years and ten months, former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Wednesday night in the popular Aaj TV talk-show 'Live with Talaat'.
The talk show was designed as a retrospect on the achievements of the National Assembly after it was convened on 17 November 2000. Jamali was the first prime minister elected by this assembly with 171 votes.
Opening the discussion why the assembly has remained without direction throughout its term, Jamali said the parliament looked only inwards, oblivious of what was happening outside.
He admitted that the assembly was overwhelmingly manipulated by the President. Demurring strongly, Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani said that the leader of the party sought counsel from a sagacious president who was greatly respected by everyone in the ruling party. "It will be for the first time a peaceful transfer of power without confrontation is going to take place. Mir Jamali, of course, did not agree, and said no matter how we saw things there is a pattern of confrontation in the system, and the March 9 episode proved it conclusively.
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