Opp devising strategy to send govt packing by Nov: Zardari.

ISLAMABAD: president and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supremo Asif Ali Zardari has said the opposition parties are devising a joint strategy to send the current government packing before November 2019.

Talking to reporters at the Parliament House on Monday, Zardari said the government will weaken the parliament by doing away with the law of production order. They will also suffer because of this action, he warned. Slamming the National Assembly speaker over non-issuance of production orders, he said it is against parliamentary ethics to not issue production orders to enable a lawmaker to attend the session of parliament.

He said that Nawaz Sharif is unwell and should be shifted to his house. He demanded that the PML-N supremo's house be declared a sub-jail where he could serve the prison term awarded to him in the Al-Azizia case.

To a question, Zardari said Prime Minister Imran Khan did not allow the airing of his TV interview due to a scandal. To another question, he said that the future belongs to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Maryam Nawaz. "Maryam is just like a daughter to me and I have been advising her in the past," he said.

The PPP leader said that the country is under a 'civilian martial law'. "It will take three to four months to topple the government," he...