ISLAMABAD: The debate in National Assembly (NA) session on Thursday diverted when the Opposition Leader Khurshid Shah passed a prejudiced remark on female members of the House.
He was addressing the house when NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, over continuous chatter, asked women lawmakers either to be silent during the session or go outside the house.
In response to the Speaker’s remarks, the opposition leader Khursheed Shah said, “Don’t stop them, these women fall ill if they do not talk.”
His remark enraged the female members of the house.
Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) member Nafisa Shah said that she would stage a protest for pointing out women only as men members were also engaged in conversation. Nafisa Shah asked the speaker why he stopped women only.
The speaker replied that she could not challenge the chair.
Following the session, tweets of Aseefa Bhutto Zardari surfaced asking the opposition leader Khursheed Shah, affiliated with her party, to apologise for his offensive remarks. “Such remarks against women are intolerable,” she said in her tweet by terming it derogatory.
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