The National Assembly on Wednesday witnessed rowdy scenes when Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat lambasted Leader of the Opposition Maulana Fazlur Rehman remarks allegedly threatening to ban entry of the Prime Minister into NWFP, where MMA is in power.
Maulana, who was not present in the House at the time, rushed in to clarify the matter and said his statement was not conceived in its "true context".
The Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain prorogued the session sin die when he was unable to control the situation as MMA members turned their moderate protest into a verbal uproar.
The treasury and MMA parliamentarians also held each other responsible for 'deteriorating' law and order situation in Karachi and other parts of the Sindh province.
Taking the floor, Faisal accused religious alliance of promoting "violence and indecency" in the politics by threatening to ban entry of elected Prime Minister into the province where it was in power.
"It (the alleged threat) is unconstitutional and illegal. There is no room for this kind of attitude in politics," the Interior Minister said referring to Fazlur Rahman Tuesday speech in the House.
The minister blamed that MMA's (thwarted) peace march in Karachi was to score some political points and feared it could have further deteriorated the situation in the city.
Fazlur Rahman, who was sent back to Islamabad from Karachi airport on Saturday last as the Sindh government had banned his entry into the province, said he was just comparing the situation if Prime Minister was banned to visit a province.
"If a chief minister can bar the Leader of the Opposition from entering into a province, then what will happen if another chief minister bans entry of Prime Minister into another province?" he asked. Fazlur Rahman claimed that MMA was the only party, which could ensure peace and stability in Karachi and said Saturday's peace march by the alliance was to bring back normalcy in the city.
"We (MMA) have been staging marches, holding rallies and demos in all parts of the country in the past and non of our protests have ever been violent," he emphatically said.
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