Does PTI Have Any Justification Left to Be Part of This Parliament? – Salman Akram Raja
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00:00Then you tell me Salman, please enlighten me.
00:04This is such a fake parliament, it has a small committee and everything.
00:08Why are you sitting in this parliament?
00:10Why are you increasing the salaries?
00:12Your people are also taking salaries, PMLN's are also taking salaries, People's Party.
00:15Everyone is taking salaries.
00:17Murad, everyone is taking.
00:18But where there is a dialogue.
00:20No, then you justify to me today, why are you sitting in this parliament?
00:24Look, we have not given a fake answer to this parliament.
00:29We are saying that listen to our election petitions and decide.
00:34That's a very convenient, I'm sorry Salman, it's a very convenient argument.
00:38It's a very convenient argument.
00:40Wherever you become a suit, you become a parliamentarian.
00:42Where you don't become a suit, you become a fake.
00:44It doesn't work like that.
00:46You can say it like this.
00:48We are saying that the people voted.
00:50The people who were elected by the votes of the people, you kept them out.
00:54Their cases are in front of the courts.
00:56Let them run.
00:58And let this parliament get its rightful identity.
01:02My genuine, my genuine opinion is this.
01:04It is my humble opinion.
01:06That if you had been sitting in that parliament today, in this meeting.
01:09Then perhaps this announcement would have come out.
01:12It would have been something like this.
01:14To engage proactively, to talk.
01:16And you could have given a positive input.
01:19You left the whole field empty.
01:21That okay, according to you, the priest was converted to the converted.
01:26So it's your fault.
01:28You left the empty platform.
01:30Why should we blame them then?
01:32There is nothing like that.
01:34This was not the last marka.
01:36This was not the last room.
01:38This was not the last session.
01:40This conversation will continue.
01:42We will play our role.
01:44We understand that we know what the solution to the issues in this area is.
01:47It is not in the gunfire.
01:49It is not in the beating.
01:51We have mentioned a process.
01:53Which the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is forming.
01:55We want the loyal government to support it.
01:58We go and talk.
02:00Peace had come during our government.
02:02In this area.
02:04Many matters were to be resolved.
02:06After that, the government changed.
02:08In the same way, he picked up and threw his Afghan immigrants out.
02:10Sent.
02:12He did injustice to them.
02:14These things have an effect in front of us.
02:16We have to talk.
02:18Where someone will point a gun at us, we will also point a gun at them.
02:20But we have to talk only in the press.
02:22We do not have to talk in any formal forum.
02:24We are sitting in the parliament.
02:26There are many committees of the parliament.
02:28This was not the last conversation.
02:30Why do you think it was the last conversation?
02:32There will be a conversation.
02:34The statement that has been made that Pakistan has to become a hard state.
02:38How do you see it?
02:40This is a meaningless statement.
02:42There is a book by Levin called Hard State.
02:44What is a hard state?
02:46If you talk about political science,
02:48it is a state where institutions are strong.
02:50It is a state where institutions are strong.
02:52A hard state is not a state where you
02:54shoot civilians.
02:56A hard state is a state where you
02:58enforce the law.
03:00So that people know
03:02what our rights are.
03:04Then it should be.
03:06Do you agree that Pakistan should become a hard state?
03:08I do not know
03:10how they used this word.
03:12I think it is a state
03:14where you attack institutions.
03:16Where you loot elections.
03:18Where you defeat the judiciary.
03:20It is not a hard state.
03:22I have a little time.
03:24Give me one more answer.
03:26I remember I asked you
03:28when the salaries increased.
03:30Salaries increased.
03:32I asked you.
03:34Yes.
03:36You said that when the salaries increased,
03:38we will decide
03:40what to do.
03:42We have to invest in funds.
03:44We have to invest in people.
03:46That has not been decided yet.
03:48I would request you
03:50for a black and white answer.
03:52Do you have any justification
03:54to be a part of this parliament?
03:56When you do not
03:58believe them.
04:00When you do not believe their platforms.
04:02When you do not believe their platforms.
04:04When you do not believe their platforms.
04:06When you do not believe their platforms.
04:08Our ethical standing
04:10is that people have voted for us.
04:12Our ethical standing is that people have voted for us.
04:14The people who are sitting there
04:16have voted.
04:18We say that you are wrong.
04:20We do not say that we are wrong.
04:22We say to the people who are wrong
04:24that you should leave.
04:26This is not your right.
04:28Let our real representatives come.
04:30We tell the courts to do justice.
04:32Fair enough.
04:34I must concede that is a very smart answer.
04:36I still feel that you should have
04:38been in a meeting.
04:40Salman Akhund Raja, always a pleasure to talk to you.