The country's main opposition party-Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has decided to show political maturity by participating in joint sitting of the parliament on Tuesday (today) but it will raise strong protest on inapt policies of the PPP-led coalition government, sources said.
"We have chalked out a strategy to protest against the release of Raymond Davis and raise other issues during President Asif Ali Zardari's speech but it will be within the norms of decency," a senior PML-N leader Mohammad Pervaiz Malik told Business Recorder.
According to him, the party leadership is also in touch with other like-minded parties and we will unfold our strategy before the joint sitting of the parliament on Tuesday. On the other hand, PPP leadership had taken Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan into confidence over the president's address on March 22, sources said, adding: "PML-N has decided to register protest in a democratic and parliamentary way."
According to the sources, the PML-N will lodge strong protest during President Zardari's address to the joint sitting of parliament. The PML-N legislators would protest against the release of Raymond Davis, US drone attacks and loss of precious lives, economic policies of the government. The PML-N would also demand for return of national money deposited in Swiss banks.
Sources claimed that the PML-N has decided not to set bad precedent for a democratic elected president by boycotting the presidential address. Minister for Inter-provincial co-ordination Raza Rabbani also contacted Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and requested him not to boycott President Zardari's address.