Majority in PTI not willing to see Rashid in PAC

(media92news online)
ISLAMABAD: A number of senior leaders, including federal ministers, in the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) are opposed to the idea of making Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for a variety of reasons.
Background interviews with a number of senior PTI leaders revealed that most of the party leaders and workers are particularly angry over Mr Rashid’s diatribe against National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser.
One of the senior party leaders and a federal minister said Mr Qaiser was an old and committed party worker and they could not tolerate anything against him and that too “from an outsider”.
“He [the railways minister] should not have attacked the speaker,” the PTI leader said, adding that Mr Qaiser had served as speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly as well and he knew how to run the parliament in accordance with the rules. He said rules did not allow the speaker to nominate any member in the committee if its membership was complete.
The minister, who also held an important office in the PTI previously, said as far as he knew the decision to include Mr Rashid in the PAC had not been discussed at any forum in the party so far.