Federal Information Minister Atta Tarar said on Tuesday that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) made a “big mistake” of joining the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).
Expressing his thoughts in New York, Tarar said: “There was no entity of the SC at the parliament. The PTI had not joined the MWM, the party that was having the entity at the parliament.”
“Salman Akram Raja has made a weird statement. He [Salman Akram Raja] had said about the judge that he wanted to see the PTI getting seats.
Speaking about National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, Tarar said: “We commend the speaker’s role for the sake of the supremacy of the parliament. The speaker had raised the question, How can the permission of the floor crossing be given by overruling the legislation.”
“Justice Yahya had raised key points in his dissenting note,” he added.
Tarar questioned: “Justice Yahya had said that how can one who is not a party be given the relief?”
“How one can be given relief without filing any application, or seeking application?” he questioned.
There is ambiguity in the decision of providing the reserved seats to the PTI. It is important to get the response of the decision in line with the reserved seats.
“All of the independent candidates needed to join any of the political parties within three days after the elections,” Tarar said.
He maintained: “Going against the oath of joining any of the political parties will be considered the floor crossing.”
