Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Dr Fahmida Mirza Thursday said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leadership should not play up 'Sindh Card' for their vested interests. Talking to media persons outside the Parliament House along with Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan, she said the PPP lawmakers overreacted on the arrest of speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and did not allow her to speak on the floor of National Assembly.

She said that the PPP MNAs disrupted the proceedings of the House when she took the floor to express her views on the matter.

She said that the PPP leadership should remember that she was the first woman speaker of the National Assembly in Pakistan and she during their regime ran the House as per rules and regulations but the PPP-led Sindh government took very harsh measures against her and her family.

She said that they gave no protocol to her being former speaker of the National Assembly and committed injustices to her while registering baseless cases against her and her family.

The minister said that she knows the problems of top PPP leadership as to why they are politicising each and every corruption case against them and their cronies.

Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari said that the PPP parliamentarians unduly created rumpus in the House exposing themselves and their so-called love for democracy.

She said that the NAB is an independent institution and the National Assembly has nothing to do with its actions and functioning.

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