NA Speaker proposes ‘Charter of Parliament’ - Kashif Abbasi Raises Important Questions

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00:00Today was a good day for the Parliament.

00:02You must have heard this from many people.

00:05I have been hearing this repeatedly from within the Parliament.

00:08Will a good day for the Parliament be as good as all those bad days

00:14in which the Parliament either allowed itself to be used

00:18or for personal political gain,

00:21we have seen a lot in this Parliament in the last few years.

00:26Today, Bilawal started this speech.

00:29He said a lot of good things.

00:32When you listen to him, it seems like he is having a good conversation.

00:36Even though in the last two or three years,

00:39the People's Party has played its own role in terms of democracy.

00:42The way it has remained silent,

00:44it has remained silent on legal matters.

00:46There are a lot of questions on that.

00:48There are a lot of questions on whether you are involved.

00:50All those people, all those political parties,

00:53the place where the law was broken,

00:56whether it is elections or other matters, we will go into that.

00:59But first of all, he said one thing.

01:01And the basis of any parliamentary democracy,

01:04Bilawal said,

01:05that we should make this House functional,

01:07then the country will function.

01:09Mr. Speaker, I request you

01:11that we should make this House functional first,

01:14then we can make this country functional.

01:16But until this House is not functional,

01:18this country will not be functional.

01:20Absolutely right.

01:22This House will have to be functional.

01:25Decisions have to be made in this House.

01:28Until this is not done,

01:30this country and its democracy will not function.

01:33In this entire conversation,

01:35Ayaz Hadeg talked about the Charter of Parliament,

01:37which is also a good conversation.

01:39It is a good thing that there should be a Charter of Parliament.

01:42Let us forget what happened in the past.

01:45Our leadership may or may not sit together,

01:47but can we, parliamentarians,

01:49for the sake of Parliament, for the sake of improvement,

01:52can we not sign a Charter of Parliament?

01:54Can we not move towards improvement?

01:56Can we talk about people's rights?

01:58Can we talk about issues?

02:00Can we move away from personalities?

02:03Absolutely right, Mr. Speaker.

02:05Let us forget what happened in this Parliament.

02:08Let us remember what happened in the past few years.

02:12A law was passed a few days ago,

02:15the Bill of Permanent Prohibition and Security,

02:18on 7 September 2024.

02:20A bill was passed on the protest in Islamabad,

02:24on the case of Amna Amma,

02:26a bill was passed.

02:28Three years of imprisonment,

02:30without permission,

02:32and ten years of imprisonment,

02:34according to this law,

02:36which we are now seeing.

02:38Today, Mr. Khan Abbasi rightly said

02:40that the law was made based on one political party.

02:43The rest of the political parties

02:45will suffer the consequences.

02:47They are weaponising,

02:49by legislating,

02:51those forces,

02:53or that system,

02:55which is democratic,

02:57and democratic values,

02:59in which the right to assembly,

03:01that is, the right of any political party to protest,

03:03is a guarantee,

03:05in our constitution,

03:07the constitution of Pakistan.

03:09It is guaranteed in this.

03:11But these protests are not only done by political parties.

03:13Here, students come and protest.

03:15PWDs were protesting.

03:17Would you like to punish these people for protesting?

03:19No.

03:21But this law was passed by the assembly.

03:23On 27 August 2024,

03:25a bill was passed by the local government.

03:27And after approving this,

03:29on 8 October,

03:31the elections to be held in Islamabad,

03:33were postponed.

03:35That is, by legislating,

03:37the basic work of a democracy,

03:39this parliament was used

03:41to postpone the elections.

03:43Election Act Bill.

03:45You may remember,

03:47in July 2024,

03:49a few months ago,

03:51it was amended,

03:53that retired judges

03:55will be appointed in election tribunals.

03:57This same government,

03:59the PDM government,

04:01before the last election,

04:03had made this amendment,

04:05that only high court judges

04:07will head the tribunals.

04:09And the reason for this was that

04:11the tribunals work for 5 years,

04:13but the decision is not made.

04:15Then what happened?

04:17When they saw that they needed it,

04:19this law was also passed.

04:21It was approved.

04:23A possible amendment,

04:25which you are hearing a lot these days,

04:27is also in front of us.

04:29What will happen in that?

04:31Some extensions

04:33are being made at will.

04:35The plan is the same,

04:37which you are hearing a lot about,

04:39that numbers have been fulfilled,

04:41numbers have not been fulfilled,

04:43but this parliament is being used

04:45for its political interests.

04:47Whether it is the Supreme Court,

04:49or other courts,

04:51to control them.

04:53Then they say,

04:55we want to make the parliament effective.

04:57In this assembly,

04:59MNAs and big leaders,

05:01despite losing the election,

05:03are sitting with a sign,

05:05and are members of the National Assembly.

05:07It was made a while ago,

05:09and it was made right.

05:11It was said that the parliament

05:13will not be insulted.

05:15What happened?

05:17One SHO entered your parliament,

05:19arrested your MNAs,

05:21and the parliament is watching the drama.

05:23Not only are they watching the drama,

05:25but they defended it.

05:27The Speaker said,

05:29I did not know.

05:31Yesterday, Tariq Fazal Chaudhary

05:33told us,

05:36To arrest a CMNA,

05:38the Speaker has to be informed.

05:40He does not need permission.

05:42It is not about permission,

05:44but he was intimated.

05:46You are saying that the Speaker

05:48was told before the action.

05:50Yes, this is the position of the

05:52Islamabad administration,

05:54that we told them.

05:56As he is saying,

05:58it is necessary to inform,

06:00but permission is necessary.

06:02This is what the law says,

06:05There are different FIRs

06:07which have been registered,

06:09with the prior Honourable Speaker.

06:11The procedures of the National Assembly

06:13have to be followed,

06:15following all the instructions.

06:19Following all the instructions.

06:21The law has not been broken anywhere.

06:23This is what the IG of Islamabad

06:25and the Chief of Muslim Region

06:27are saying.

06:29This is what we call

06:31our parliament.

06:34Also, you may remember,

06:36when this government was formed,

06:38it was reformed into NAB.

06:42This parliament was used.

06:44It is necessary to act,

06:46but as I said,

06:48let us see what happened before.

06:50Using this parliament,

06:52such laws were made,

06:54in which one's life was spared.

06:56The day before,

06:58the Prime Minister Shabaz Sharif

07:00was to be convicted,

07:02the next day,

07:04all the cases were closed.

07:06The law was changed.

07:08It will not be less than 50 crores.

07:10In this way,

07:12all the conditions to save oneself

07:14were included in the law.

07:20Because this is an active parliament,

07:22it is very important

07:24that we remember

07:26how this parliament

07:28has been used.

07:30From this parliament,

07:32speeches were made

07:34against the Supreme Court.

07:36That is also an active parliament.

07:38Even today,

07:40Mr. Khayat stood up

07:42and said to the next Chief Justice

07:44that he may have joined

07:46some other party.

07:48That is why he said

07:50that a party is waiting.

07:52Although those who know

07:54Mr. Mansoor Ali Shah,

07:56their reputation is not of this kind.

07:58If you look at his past,

08:00his past was better

08:02and he was considered

08:04an anti-PTI.

08:06But this is not only about this time.

08:08Today, the PTI has also supported him.

08:10You may remember that

08:12secret cameras were taken out

08:14from the Senate in March 2021.

08:16There were cameras there.

08:18A committee was formed

08:20for the investigation of these cameras.

08:22Mr. Mustafa Almas Koker

08:24is present with me.

08:26This committee was not formed.

08:28At that time,

08:30there was a colonel

08:32who used to run the parliament.

08:34You are reminded again and again

08:36that who made the law.

08:38It was the establishment.

08:40They were called and told

08:42that the law has to be made.

08:44Everyone was gathered

08:46and then the law was made.

08:48When the trust vote was to be taken,

08:50the parliamentarians,

08:52Mr. Imran Khan,

08:54were locked up

08:56by the establishment.

08:58Because they had to

09:00complete the work.

09:02Today, we are talking about

09:04the effectiveness of Tariq-e-Insaaf.

09:06How easily you gave the seats

09:08which later made you realize

09:10that you gave the wrong seats.

09:12This is our black history

09:14of this parliament.

09:16We use this parliament.

09:18The slogans of democracy

09:20are very good.

09:22We do not use this parliament

09:24to promote democracy.

09:26We use it to promote

09:28our political interests.

09:30Mr. Bilawal said one more thing.

09:32Let's go to the debate.

09:34He talked a lot about

09:36its vulnerability and democracy.

09:38What did he say?

09:40The institution and the whole country

09:42run because of the law.

09:44Without the vulnerability of that law,

09:46neither this institution nor any other

09:48will be able to run.

09:50Until this country runs

09:52according to the law,

09:54it will not be able to run.

09:56These people who are locked up

09:58used to talk only about

10:00the establishment.

10:02Yesterday, they talked about this.

10:04Why can't politicians

10:06sit together

10:08and decide the rules of the game

10:10which are not even mentioned

10:12in the law?

10:14Mr. Bilawal talked about the law

10:16and democracy.

10:18The elections of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

10:20were not held.

10:22Institutions were dismissed.

10:24How were the institutions dismissed?

10:26Elections were discussed.

10:28The media was choked.

10:30What happened to women in this country

10:32in the last two years?

10:34The People's Party became silent.

10:36It became a spectacle.

10:38It is a part of this hybrid system.

10:40Mr. Bilawal said very good things.

10:42But you should see that

10:44politics is not only about today

10:46but also in the future.

10:48I have already mentioned Mr. Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar.

10:50Thank you very much.

10:52Thank you, Mr. Khokhar.

10:54Thank you, Mr. Akhil.

10:56Thank you, Mr. Qureshi.

10:58He is from Lahore.

11:00I would like to ask him

11:02about democracy.

NA Speaker proposes ‘Charter of Parliament’ - Kashif Abbasi Raises Important Questions

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