PML-N s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi speaks during the NA session on Tuesday. DawnNewsTV
Members of the government and the ruling PTI on Tuesday denounced PML-N senior leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for threatening to hit National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser with his shoe after the two exchanged harsh words.
The political temperature was at a fever pitch from the get-go as the assembly session resumed on Tuesday, when the government presented a resolution to debate the expulsion of the French ambassador one of the key demands of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) which staged several days of violent protests across the country last week.
Disgusting behaviour : PTI lambasts PML-N s Abbasi for threatening to hit NA speaker with his shoe - Pakistan
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New Delhi: The Pakistani government has proposed a law that will criminalise the criticism of the military, which has been approved by a panel of the National Assembly the lower house of the country’s parliament.
The bill, which was approved by Pakistan’s National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior on 7 April, proposes to change the country’s criminal law and states that anyone who “intentionally ridicules, brings into disrepute or defames” the country’s military will undergo a two-year prison sentence or will be fined more than $3,200 (Rs 5,00,000) or both.
The bill, however, still needs majority approval in the National Assembly and the Senate (upper house) of the country’s Parliament.
Passage of bill against disrespect of armed forces assailed
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