Islamabad:
Friday, the disappearance of the Chronicler Shama Junejo in an official delegation turned into a storm in Parliament on Friday, with members of the opposition to the National Assembly accusing the government of bypassing the consultation on Palestine and of criticizing the treatment by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of the Gaza issue.
Vice-Prime Minister Ishaq Dar washed his hands of responsibility while the members of the opposition, led by the former president of NA, Asad Qaiser, sharpened their knives on the management by the Government of Palestine.
Speaking in Parliament, Ishaq Dar categorically declared that he had not signed any letter containing the name of Shama Junejo.
“The name Shama Junejo was not in the letter I wrote. His name was not included in the official delegation letter. The name was mentioned by the editors and other staff members, but not in the list bearing my signature,” said Dar.
Meanwhile, the former president of NA, Asad Qaiser, criticized the government for not having consulted the Parliament on sensitive issues, in particular linked to Palestine. “This parliament should be consulted, but it seems that even their own people are not confident,” he added.
He accused the government of having sent contradictory messages saying: “Khawaja Asif says one thing while another ministry says something else. He has faced the embarrassment”.
Qaiser asked how “a woman had been sent to such a forum” and said her statements had raised doubts.
He condemned the Israeli atrocities in Gaza, noting that “more than 60,000 have been martyred and that the infrastructures have been destroyed. Brutality is beyond the imagination.”
He deplored the silence of Muslim leaders, asking: “Have eight Islamic heads of state tweeted?” He allegedly allegedly allegedly active, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had “tilted the head of the Pakistanis into shame” and “injured the nation’s emotions with a single tweet”.
“No agreement is acceptable without the consent of the Palestinians,” he said, stressing that history had never witnessed such tyranny and that Israel will never be recognized. “
