‘Tamasha’ not an unparliamentary word: Chaudhry Nisar

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ISLAMABAD: Refusing to take back the word ‘tamasha’, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the word was not unparliamentary.

Addressing the National Assembly, Nisar said ‘tamasha’ the Urdu word for drama had been used 45 times during the last five years in Parliament and no one had objected. “Some members of the opposition want to hold the assembly hostage.”

Nisar had used the word to describe how a party was treating the issue of vote verification during an earlier session of the National Assembly.

The PPP and PTI have demanded that the minister take back the word, otherwise they will continue their boycott of the National Assembly.