Opposition Creates Constitutional Crisis: Mashhood.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan on Tuesday said that the opposition was trying to create constitutional crisis by delaying the provincial budget which was tantamount to depriving people of their due rights.

Talking to the media, he said that speaker Punjab Assembly was the custodian of the house and it was his constitutional obligation to run the affairs of assembly as per rules. He said that the Punjab government on Monday made utmost efforts to present the financial budget with consensus of the opposition but they (opposition) continued to disrupt the functioning of the house. The government also accepted their demands in the larger interest of people of the province but they exploited the situation, he maintained.

Mashhood added that the demands of the opposition to call chief secretary and inspector general of police in the house could not be fulfilled, adding that law would come into force against the violators.

To a question, he said the opposition should raise issues of the public interests like price-hike and other administrative measures but they were just interested in resolving their personal issues. The government would have welcomed the suggestions of the opposition on public issues but unfortunately, the opposition was perusing personal agendas, he added. To another query, he said that it was unfair to send provincial minister Atta Tarar out of the Punjab Assembly as the article-139 allows a minister to avail all...