Bilawal, Qureshi bare knuckles on NA floor
July 1, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi came face to face in the National Assembly on Wednesday, indulging in a fiery debate.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Bilawal spoke about respecting parliamentary procedures but under which parliamentary traditions, the opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly was not allowed to make a speech on the provincial government's budget and the opposition there was deprived of the chairmanship of the Public Accounts Committee.
During the speech of Qureshi, Bilawal returned to the house. After the speech of Qureshi, he said he has the right to respond to the foreign minister and said, “We know this member from Multan far better than anyone”. He said: “I would like to request the prime minister to order the ISI to tape Qureshi's phone because when he was PPP's foreign minister, he used to campaign in the entire world to replace him with Yusuf Raza Gilani as the prime minister.” He said Prime Minister Imran Khan has yet to know what kind of person Qureshi is. “I will not take his name because I do not give him importance. I have known him from childhood and have seen him raising the slogans of ‘Jeay Bhutto’ and ‘Aik Zardari Sab Pe Bhaari’ to save his ministry,” he said.