Agha Siraj was accorded a standing welcome by the legislators from ruling PPP, while the MPAs belonging to PTI, GDA and MQM stayed unmoved from their seats.
The speaker presided over the session that began about 2 hours and 20 minutes behind the schedule in the evening where three other resolutions were also tabled by PTI, GDA and MQM against the threats of war-mongering India against Pakistan.
Debating the resolution tabled by ruling PPP's Ghanwar Ali Khan Isran to censure the NAB, MMA's Syed Abdul Rasheed extended his support.
He said that struggle for accountability was launched by his party (Jamaat-e-Islami) when incumbent Prime Minister Imran Khan was a schoolchild.
He condemned the arrest and alleged harassment of Durrani's family members especially the women by the NAB officials during their search operation.
"I support the resolution in favour of Speaker under the circumstances," he said, denouncing the NAB officials' producers. Rasheed said that the GDA and PTI legislators should have extended their condemnations against the NAB, instead of walk out of the session.
He said democracy in the country is run by the establishment but urged the PPP to step up to change the accountability laws framed during the military rule.
MQM's Khawaja Izharul Hassan refused to support the resolution on the ground that it was against a state-run institution. Nevertheless, he showed sympathy to the Speaker and his family members.
He complained his party also widely suffered due to police excesses even during the tenure of ruling PPP. He cited that MQM's MPA Javed Hanif is facing a jail trial even though he is an elected representative but the PPP never bothered to bring a resolution to support him. He argued it was the poor rule of the PPP that
the Speaker bears the brunt of it.
The PTI, GDA and MWM didn't change their mind on the resolution despite Speaker's clamour against the NAB officials.
"I will face whatever the case is," Speaker Durrani said in his speech in the house, referring to the fact that he was not convicted but he an accused.
He said he was not scared but he seeks reasons why the NAB officials 'threatened' his family during the raid on his house. "Do I look like a terrorist? Do I carry head money?" he asked. He downplayed the arrest saying "no matter! NAB may proceed with its plans against me, yet I am the custodian of the house.'
However, he called his arrest by NAB a humiliation of the Speakership and not an individual. He accused the officials of keeping his wife, children and daughter-in-law locked up in their house for seven and a half hours while he was under arrest. "I don't think that a respectable person will ever tolerate it," he clamoured.
The speaker recalled it is not the tradition of Sindh. He compared said episode with his and other colleagues' arrests during t Pervez Musharraf's military rule.
He said even then we were not humiliated. He alerted the legislators that it happened with him today and later could happen to all of them. He claimed that he produced all the documented details on his properties to the NAB spanning from 1985 until present. But, he said, the NAB arrested him from Islamabad where he was on a private visit to attend a friend's wedding.
He also blamed the NAB officials for vandalism during their raid on his house. "It is very bad," he said "I am from the Durrani tribe, and those people [perhaps] don't know Durranis".
Beating the chest, he challenged the NAB saying if they are too brave they should have come to his house when he was there. He said his family members mainly women and children were taken hostage on gunpoint for over seven hours in the house.