Pakistani parliamentary session to discuss disqualification of Sharif brothers has been halted after lawmakers scuffled over a court ruling.
The parliamentary session terminated after lawmakers belonging to Nawaz Sharifs' PML-N party chanted anti-government slogans and accused President Asif Ali Zardari of influencing Supreme Court's decision in order to remove Sharif from politics, a Press TV correspondent reported.
PML-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the judiciary had become a tool for president to reach his goals.
Last Wednesday the Supreme Court upheld an earlier ban on Nawaz Sharif and his brother, Shahbaz, from office. It also dismissed the government in Punjab where PML-N holds power and ordered Shahbaz --chief minister of Punjab-- to step down.
The opposition lawmakers wearing black ribbons on their shoulders said what they were trying to gain is not overturning the verdict but restoration of the sacked judges.
The PML-N anti-government remarks triggered outrage among the ruling PPP lawmakers who tried to disrupt Nisar Ali Khan's speech.
Nisar Ali Khan also warned that the PPP would not be able to run its government in central Pakistan without PML-N mandate in Punjab.
He also urged Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and parliament speaker Fahmida Mirza to act on the issue.
After Nisar Ali Khan's two-hour speech, Gilani told the National Assembly that the government had no preliminary information about the court ruling.View
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