Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The opposition walked out of the National Assembly after Opposition Leader Syed Khursheed Shah rejected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s much-awaited speech, saying it has created more confusion rather than solving any issue.

Speaking with journalists outside the Parliament House, the opposition leaders explained their viewpoint before the people through media. “We asked seven questions and wanted similar replies, but he (Nawaz) made these seven into 70,” Khursheed said.

He repeated that the prime minister’s speech consisted of such details which were not even part of the seven questions asked by the opposition. “We thought Nawaz Sharif would simply offer explanation about offshore firms and his London flats, but we were again made to hear stories about Jeddah and Dubai,” he said.

“Therefore, we (opposition) walked out of the parliament since we did not wish to waste our nation’s time by resorting to useless speeches as the best judge of his (Nawaz’s) speech are the people of Pakistan,” he said. Senator Aitzaz Ahsan said that Nawaz Sharif deliberately ignored the question about the ownership of the flats in London and the money used to purchase the said property.

“Nawaz Sharif did not need to deliver such a long speech and could have simply showed the documents regarding the possession of the offshore company,” Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Showing some ‘documents’ to the media, he said that the first flat was bought in 1993, the second and third were bought in 1995, the fourth was bought in 1996 and fifth in 2004.