Sindh Assembly resolves to support democracy

Sindh Assembly's legislators on Friday resolved to support the rule of law and democracy. However, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers supported the resolution partially and conditionally. The resolution was tabled in the House by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Soorath Thebo.
PPP and MQM lawmakers opined that the demands of the parties staging sit-ins in Islamabad were not unconstitutional. They supported the demand for registering an FIR against killings of Pakistan Awami Tehreek workers in Model Town, but opposed the demand for sacking the Prime Minister and elected government under the pressure of the sit-ins. Speaking in favour of the resolution, Thebo paid tributes to democratic forces and the people of the country for protecting democracy in the country. He said the parties staging the sit-ins had for past five weeks dipped the country and the entire nation into a chaotic state because they were eager to grab the power through unconstitutional methods.
PPP lawmaker Taimoor Talpur, in his speech, said elected government could not be toppled with the strength of just 5000 persons. The organisers of the sits-ins could never bring changes in the country, but they might promote the nudity, instead. PPP could stage a sit-in with 50,000 people, but it would not be a right way, he added. Speaking on the occasion, MQM's deputy parliamentary leader in Sindh Assembly, Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan said MQM wanted to see an FIR should be registered on the Model Town incident and his party was bridging the gap between the protesting parties and the government.
He said the sits-in in Islamabad remained peaceful because of sincere efforts of MQM chief Altaf Hussain. The ongoing political confrontation between the protesting parties and the government should be resolved through the formula of 'give and take', he opined. PPP lawmaker Sharjeel Inam Memon said Imran Khan had failed to fulfil his commitments for changing the Thana culture and bringing the youth forward to contest general elections.
He said Imran Khan had always ditched whenever he was asked to pass any comment about Taliban and that his way of doing politics was grossly perplexed with his own attitude. Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh also said that no one would agree to the idea of sacking the elected government through pressurising the government by sit-ins, hence, the politics of sit-in should now come to an end.