LAHORE: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid as well as over 20 MNAs and MPAs called on Chief Minister Usman Buzdar at his office on Thursday and discussed the no-confidence motion, political and law and order situation in Punjab.

Both the chief minister and the interior minister condemned the opposition’s attempts to spearhead political anarchy in the country and said that it would face big surprise on the occasion of the no-confidence motion. They said that a large number of people would throng Islamabad on March 27.

The interior minister said the law and order situation was satisfactory and no one would be allowed to take law into their own hands. He said the opposition had been ensnared in its own trap. He said the PML-N should provide its long march schedule.

Meanwhile, the chief minister said it would be a waste of time if he would respond to baseless accusations. He said impeding development and political chaos was the main agenda of the propagandists.

In meetings with parliamentarians, he discussed matters pertaining to mutual interest, progress on development schemes in their respective constituencies and political situation.

The chief minister said the March 27 public rally would carve out a new history in the political dynamics of Pakistan and a large number of people across the country would attend the rally. He said the nation would come out in the public rally against the looters and plunderers on the call of Prime Minister Imran Khan. He emphasized that the rally would prove to be the last nail in the coffin of the opposition’s negative politics. He deplored horse-trading tactics on the part of the opposition, saying that the PTI believed in displaying courtesy and patience in politics and denounced that the opponents had promoted a wrong political culture in the country by indulging in politics of doing criticism for the sake of criticism.

Those who met the chief minister included provincial ministers Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, Murad Ras, Akhtar Malik, Jehanzeb Khichi, Sardar Asif Nakai, and Rai Taimoor Bhatti, and MNAs and MPAs Sardar Muhammad Khan Leghari, Aurangzeb Khichi, Chaudhry Tahir Iqbal, Faizullah Kamoka, Raja Yawar Kamal Khan, Taimoor Lali, Waris Aziz, Wasif Mazharan, Saleem Akhtar and others. Chief Whip Syed Abbas Ali Shah was also present.

Published in Dawn, March 25th, 2022