MNA Mohsin Dawar lambasts PML-N govt over failure to uphold civil supremacy

The National Democratic Movement (NDM) chairman and Member of the National Assembly (MNA) from tribal areas Mohsin Dawar has censured Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) led coalition government for doing nothing to uphold civil supremacy.

MNA Mohsin Dawar, while speaking on the floor of the National Assembly (NA), lambasted the coalition government for doing nothing for its allies who supported them in toppling the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.

He opened up about how he was stopped from leaving the country to attend the Herat Security Dialogue event in Tajikistan on November 27 at the Islamabad airport despite his name being removed from the Exit Control List (ECL) over directives of the federal cabinet.

Dawar said that he had also submitted a privilege motion which did not come on the NA agenda. He asked the NA speaker to refer his privilege motion to the concerned committee.

He slammed the coalition government for what he gets from supporting the vote of no-confidence (VONC) against the Imran Khan-led PTI government in return.

Spoke in the Parliament about how I was stopped from going to Tajikistan on the orders of a havaldar. Imran Khan trampled civil supremacy and surrendered the people’s mandate which is why we supported VONC hoping the new govt will uphold civil liberties which isn’t happening. pic.twitter.com/YMLEewIa7Q

— Mohsin Dawar (@mjdawar) December 1, 2022

“Who will give me the answer? Neither interior minister is here to answer me nor PML-N leadership is present here.”

He said that he backed the no-confidence motion against former premier Imran Khan for not seeking any perks or powers from the incumbent government. Dawar said if he was seeking perks and power then Imran Khan was offering more to him instead of the current regime.

The NDM chairman said that he backed the VONC against Imran Khan as he was against civil supremacy and surrendered on every issue but we were not expecting the same behaviour from the incumbent government.

Earlier, the lawmaker had been stopped by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) before international departure.

Dawar, along with MNA Ali Wazir and some other party leaders, is facing charges of rioting, provocative speech and others in four identical cases registered at Sohrab Goth, Shah Latif Town and Boat Basin police stations in Karachi.

The said cases have been registered under sections 147 (rioting), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of an offence committed in prosecution of common object), 500 (punishment for defamation), 505 (statement conducing to public mischief), and other sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) read with the Section 7 (Punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.