Shahid Khaqan Abbasi urges to strengthen democracy & uplifting Parliament

ISLAMABAD, June 30 (SABAH): Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that we couldn’t accept the parliamentary system and democracy unfortunately.

He was addressing a seminar on Sunday. The former prime minister said that the institutions and constitution are not responsible for the failure of parliament but the individuals are responsible for it.

“We do legislation in the parliament without any debate or discussion,” said Abbasi while adding that bills are bulldozed through parliament.

The former prime minister was of the view that the right to speak has been snatched from the parliamentarians.

A ministry is run by a bureaucrat but the minister is held responsible in case of any failure, he added. “We need to resolve all these issues in order to run democracy efficiently,” said the former prime minister.

Abbasi added that the provinces get share in the government through parliamentary democracy. It merits mention here that Abbasi is all set to launch a new political party named ‘Awaam Pakistan’ on July 6.

Abbasi had been a confidant of PML-N President Nawaz Sharif and served as prime minister after he was disqualified by the Supreme Court over corruption charges from August 2017 to May 2018.

He parted ways with the Nawaz-led party after having differences over appointment of Maryam Nawaz as the party leader superseding him.