The Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz said on Sunday that the opposition will support required legislation to prevent incidents like Sahiwal. "If protectors become killers, then states do not survive, therefore the prime minister should consider this incident as an example," he said.

Regarding economic situation of the country, he said that it has been on ventilator and a state with 220 million populations could not survive simply on donations. "We do not want to topple the government; the general public could easily analyze the difference between the tenures of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in terms of rise in the country's debts.

He further criticized ineffective policies of the government to resolve core issues of the general public, and asked "What have they achieved in the last six months?"

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019