Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is struggling to placate a group of his party lawmakers who have formed an unofficial ‘forward bloc’, sources said.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is struggling to placate a group of his party lawmakers who have formed an unofficial ‘forward bloc’, sources said.
Closed aides of Prime Minister Sharif said he was concerned over the lingering issue, which kept on resulting in embarrassment to the ruling alliance throughout the last National Assembly session wherein the treasury had badly failed to maintain quorum. In the private meetings, disgruntled members like Najaf Abbass Sail, Raza Hayat Hiraj, Sheikh Mohammad Akram and other parliamentarians from central and southern Punjab districts speak out their heart against the federal cabinet members and the party leadership for ignoring them.
Sources in the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) said Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab could not manage the quorum in the house, as he was assigned the task by the PM to ensure that presence of the members during the session. The members kept on defying the party discipline and despite repeated instructions and directions by the party leadership, refused to attend the National Assembly proceedings to the embarrassment on part of government which had failed to maintain quorum and the session had to be put off.
