PPP lawmakers call for punishment of disloyal senators.

A number of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) lawmakers want their leadership to take action against these senators who had supported Yousuf Raza Gilani at the time of his nomination as the opposition leader and caused a rift within the opposition's alliance, after getting 'ditched' for a second time in less than three months by a 'group of six independents' sitting on the opposition benches in the Senate.

'The parties in the opposition must carry out a purge of the soft-at-heart members and those senators who sit on the opposition benches but vote for the treasury,' said PPP Senator Raza Rabbani in a statement on Saturday, a day after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government narrowly managed to get the crucial State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill passed from the opposition-controlled Senate.

'Yesterday (Friday) was a collective day of shame for the parliament, in particular the Senate, when it passed a document of surrender, a document which financially makes Pakistan a colony of the international donors and imperialists,' said Mr Rabbani.

'The history and future...