Country in need of new system to get rid of outmoded parties: Zaman

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s member Sindh Assembly Khurram Sher Zaman has termed reports of presidential system in the country as ‘rumour’, ARY News reported Friday.

Responding to a criticism leveled by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Bilawal Bhutto, Zaman said the hue and cry raised by the PPP was part of their propaganda.

‘Those who support Narendra Modi have no moral authority to criticize the government’, he said.

He also blasted the PPP for not fulfilling its promise over ‘food, cloth and shelter’, and “letting people suffer in poverty.”

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The PTI’s Sindh MPA said a need was being felt for a new system in order to get rid of the previous governance model that compounded problems for the country.

Earlier in the day, Bilawal Bhutto had criticised the presidential system and termed it undemocratic and harmful for Pakistan.

Talking to journalists, Bilawal warned of resistance if someone tried to impose the presidential system in the country. He said that they would foil every conspiracy against democracy and declared parliamentary system imperative for resolution of the country’s problems.

Criticizing National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the PPP chairman said that the institution was constituted for political engineering by the former president Pervez Musharraf.

He demanded of impartial and across the board accountability in the country. He said that it would be difficult to bring a new accountability system right now and offered support to the government for the betterment of the current system.