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Another PML-N MPA joins `slap club`

By Our Staff Reporter 2014-05-29
LAHORE: A ruling party woman member of the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday slapped her male colleague from the PTI during rumpus outside the assembly hall.

The ugly incident took place when the opposition members led by the PTI`s Mehmoodur Rasheed were talking to electronic media while protesting against speaker and treasury during a walkout.

The opposition members, after being denied permission to table a resolution in the house, came out of the assembly and started registering their protest in front of the media.

Meanwhile, some PML-N women MPAs, including Salma Shaheen Butt and Farzana Butt, also came there and started pushing their protesting colleagues mostly from the PTI, including Mahmoodur Rasheed and Mian Aslam Iqbal.

During the disorder, Salma Butt allegedly slapped a PTI MPA, Asif Mahmood who was rescued by Aslam Iqbal.

Later, talking to media persons, Asif Mahmood said he would submit a privilege motion against the PML-N women MPAs and demanded that such `ill-mannered` women should be de-seated from the assembly.

He said the PML-N should teach manners to these women MPAs and train them how to behave properly in and outside the house.

Earlier, opposition leader Mahmoodur Rasheed said he wanted to table a resolution against the newly-sworn-in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s attitude towards his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif.

The resolution also demanded that the India`s new government should stop aiding (financially and technically) terrorists in Balochitsan. It said the India should end its `illegal` use of the water share of Kashmir and Pakistan.

The resolution said Pakistani government and its people were supporters of peace and dialogue process and India should respond positively to such gestures.

The resolution also said Kashmir issue was the actual hurdle in improving PakIndia ties. It said the issue should be resolved in the light of UN resolutions passed in 1948 and signed by India`s then prime minister Mr Jawahar Lal Nehru.