Islamabad (LTN NEWS): Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Tuesday that Parliament is the most important institution and that it is a legislator’s constitutional duty to protect the house’s power.
During a debate in the National Assembly, he said that he would have to show up if the head of any institution was called to one of the Parliamentary committees.
He said that everyone, including the government and the opposition member of Parliament, is responsible for making this institution stronger.
Khawaja Asif said that we need to make this house’s committees work well since they are an extension of this house.
He said that everyone should answer to the committees, but that the Parliament should still be in charge.
He said that if the head of any other organization can show up at a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), then why can’t the NAB?
He said that the PAC chairman had brought up an important point and that this institution should back the committee.
He said that the most powerful group in the House was the PAC. “If someone questions the work or jurisdiction of the chairman of the PAC, we should bring them to the House, where they think they are holy cows,” he said.
He said that this should be looked into by a special committee of the parliament.
He said that in the past 75 years, Parliament had been attacked the most, sometimes by dictatorships and sometimes by 58-B.
He said that, luckily, nothing bad has happened to this institution of Parliament in the last 14 years.
The minister said that the accountability institution had been shut down by the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He said that accountability was done in all other provinces, so he didn’t understand why it was shut down in KP and the institution was locked.
He said that the constitutional institution found out the day before that the person who claimed to be able to run the country under the constitution had given a false affidavit.
He said that Imran Khan, who is the leader of the PTI, kept getting money from Israel and the US.
He said that the UK’s National Crime Agency seized Rs 50 billion from Bahria Town and sent it directly to the government, where it was used to pay off their debts. As a bribe, a wealthy businessman gave land to Al-Qadir University. “We were jailed because we were part of a political party,” he said.
