PAK OPPOSITION BLASTS IMRAN OVER ACCORD WITH TLP

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan opposition on Friday blasted Imran Khan government in the National Assembly for signing an “illogical” agreement with the Tehreek-ilabbaik Pakistan (TLP) last year about the expulsion of French ambassador from the country and severing of trade relations with France over the publication of sketches in the magazine Charlie Hebdo. “When the government knew that it could not sever bilateral relations with France, then why such an agreement was signed with TLP?” asked Naveed Qamar of the PPP, during a debate in the National Assembly, reported Dawn. He said the government was thinking of moving the Supreme Court for the dissolution of TLP, but Parliament was not being taken into confidence over the matter. “Nothing is being conveyed to Parliament,” he said. Moreover, Qamar asked whether decisions in the past to ban certain organisations had been implemented in letter and spirit. Riaz Pirzada of the PML-N said the members of the Assembly should be informed who had formed two banned organisations, the Tehreek-italiban Pakistan and Sipahi-sahaba Pakistan. “First a genie is created that later becomes a headache for its creators,” he added.