view that it should be responded in the same spirit as it was creating confusion and every institution should remain within its constitutional limits.
While doves admitted there are very serious issues of good governance related to National Action Plan (NAP) and otherwise. They admitted that mentionable improvements were not made on 20 points related to their government as promised. A senior leader said the government was facing lot of difficulties to implement the NAP in true spirit but it will take time. They claimed the prime minister was willing to deliver.
PPP had no clear stand over the issue that is why Khursheed Shah was very careful in Parliament while commenting on the issue. The PPP legislators were one page over the issue and they declared this press release uncalled for. They observed that the army is also part and parcel of the governance.
Lt Gen (R) Abdul Qayyum observed that the ISPR press release was an observation instead an accusation and it should not be taken as charge sheet. He suggested the government and the Armed Forces should sit together and discuss all anomalies to find some way out instead making it a public issue. Baloch legislators said it was not the army’s right to respond in such a way and this message could be conveyed by other means instead making it public. However, they were concerned that the government might bounce back with the same spirit which would not benefit any one. The MQM MPs reserved their comments.
Earlier Speaker Ayaz Sadiq showed his muscles over ignoring Parliament by the ministers and bureaucracy. He was so annoyed that he adjourned the House proceedings for ten minutes to make sure the presence of the ministers and baboos.
Those parliamentary secretaries who were present in the House were not prepared and created embarrassment for the government. Rana Afzal, Jafar Iqbal and Raja Javed Ikhlas could not answer tricky questions and finally Zahid Hamid came to the rescue, and satisfied the opposition.