PPP reiterates resolve to defend 18th Amendment.

LAHORE -- PPP Punjab President Qamar Zaman Kaira and General Secretary Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed have made it clear that the party will not allow anyone to make any change to the 18th Amendment and the National Finance Commission (NFC) award.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, they said Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was devoid of a clear majority to run his government and whose allies were ditching him, should not talk about a constitutional amendment, which needed a two-thirds majority in both houses of the bicameral parliament.

They said PM Khan was using the 18th Amendment to cover up his 'failures' on various fronts; otherwise, both the PPP and PML-N had successfully completed their five-year terms without feeling that the amendment was, in any way, obstructing work of their respective governments.

Both the PPP leaders regretted that the PM, during his Sindh visit, said Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah was not...