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Senators hail Interior Minister Nisar’s reply to UAE minister’s threatening remarks

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was praised in the Senate for his response to a UAE minister’s threatening remarks against Pakistan for its stance over Yemen crisis when he came to house after a gap of 17 months, ending his unannounced boycott of the upper house of parliament.

The senators received the minister with desk-thumping as he entered the house when a debate was continuing on the status of the standard of education in the country on a motion that had been tabled by Nawabzada Saifullah Magsi.

“I welcome Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar after a long long absence,” said Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani, who had been in the forefront of the opposition’s protest against the alleged misconduct of the interior minister.

On Sunday, the interior minister in a hard-hitting statement had declared the remarks of UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Anwar Mohammed Gargash against the parliamentary resolution on Yemen situation as “threatening, unacceptable and an insult to the Pakistani nation”.

PML-Q Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed termed the interior minister’s statement “bold”, saying he had demonstrated that someone in the government had the “guts” to speak out.

Chaudhry Nisar was also lauded by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Senator Mohsin Aziz, who termed it “a very good statement”. The PTI senator said that the statement of the UAE minister was “humiliating and derogatory”.

Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq and Ilyas Bilour of the Awami National Party (ANP) also welcomed the interior minister to the house.

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