War of words begins in Senate as PPP starts grilling PM.

ISLAMABAD -- The treasury and the opposition, on Monday, entered into a heated argument in the Senate when Pakistan People's Party (PPP) accused Prime Minister Imran Khan for his 'failure to implement the party manifesto to address the crises being faced by the country.'

Both sides in the house rose from the seats to protest against each other after PPP Senator Bahramand Khan Tangi, taking part in the budget debate, used critical remarks for PM saying that the premier had negated all his promises and claims he used to make before coming into power. There was an uproar in the house until the Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani intervened by expunging some of the remarks of Senator Tangi and advised the senators from both sides of the aisle to be patient and to have their seats.Leader of the House Senator Dr Shahzad Waseem also protested over the remarks and said that they would not allow anyone in the house to make a false statement in the name of budget speech.

He said that the member has talked about their party manifesto while naming Prime Minister Imran Khan. 'These are the people who have to decide who has implemented the manifesto and who has not,' he asserted in loud voice.

PTI Senator Waseem reminded the PPP of their slogan of 'roti, kapra and makan' given by its founding father Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and said that it couldn't be fulfilled while generations got ruined. He claimed that Larkana, a district in Sindh and the home constituency of Bhutto family, was still poverty-hit. He said that Larkana was the place where PM during his recent visit had distributed Rs 2.2 billion among 125,000 poor families of the area. 'PM distributed this money in the area where they (PPP) are in power since last over two decades,' he said. Earlier, Senator Tangi made an emotional budget speech severely criticizing the ruling PTI and PM Imran Khan. He said that the PM during his opposition days had been making claims to end inflation and unemployment, to introduce a uniform education system in the country, to address difficulties of overseas Pakistanis, to give employment to 10 million people and provide housing to five million people.

PPP lawmaker said that PM had also been promising to bring back looted Pakistani money of worth billions of dollars that had been allegedly stashed abroad besides increasing tax collection in billions of rupees. He remarked that PM used to say to the people that he should be called as a 'puppet PM' if he failed to get...