Islamabad: A scuffle broke out between Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Murad Saeed and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Javed Latif outside the National Assembly on Thursday.
Javed Latif had criticised PTI Chairman Imran Khan over his statement against foreign players called to fill in at the Pakistan Super League final last week.
Speaking to newsmen outside Parliament, Saeed said that he was not allowed to speak in Parliament about the profiling of Pashtuns in Punjab. He further added that Latif was allowed to speak in the session during which he used the word “traitor” against Imran Khan, the party leader.
As both lawmakers exited the Assembly and exchanged sharp words with each other, a fight ensued.
Saeed said that PML-N parliamentarians had used derogatory and foul language against members of the PTI in the past as well, Dawn online reported.
“During Thursday’s session, Jawed Latif [should not have] called Imran Khan a traitor,” he explained. “When I protested against it, PML-N lawmakers told me they had labelled my leader as a traitor and not me,” he said.
He also urged the National Assembly speaker to take notice on the issue.
PML-N leader Talal Chaudhary said the PTI party was not conducting its politics in a respectable manner.
He added that members of the PTI frequently “attacked” the assembly on the floor of the Parliament and from “outside” as well, Dawn online reported.
Chaudhry added that PTI members were “narrow-minded and frustrated, just like their leader”.
Friction between the PTI and PML-N has increased considerably in recent weeks with the Supreme Court’s Panamagate case hearings in the backdrop, with fights breaking out between members of ruling and opposition parties.
In January, a scuffle had broken out as members of opposition parties requested the speaker to submit a privilege motion against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Members of the PTI had indulged in sloganeering against the government during the session and called the prime minister a “thief”.
