PPP lawmakers on Monday took their protest against Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani’s arrest to the upper house of the parliament, with Senator Sherry Rehman saying that the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) detention of a serving speaker is “desecration of the Sindh Assembly”.
NAB had last week arrested Durrani from a hotel in Islamabad over allegations of embezzlement and accumulating assets beyond his known sources of income.
Rehman, in her speech on the floor of the house today, said that “a message was being sent to Sindh with Durrani’s arrest, but she also dismissed allegations that the PPP is playing the “Sindh card” over the issue. “Sindh is not some card that can be played,” she said.
Following Durrani’s arrest, senior PPP leaders, including members of the provincial cabinet, had staged a sit-in outside the Durrani residence in protest over not allowing female ministers Azra Pechuho and Syeda Shehla Raza to meet the speaker’s family while a raid by a NAB team was in progress.
