KARACHI, JAN 23, (DNA) – Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) MPA Nusrat Sahar Abbasi announced in the Sindh Assembly hall on Monday that she is forgiving Imdad Pitafi after he put a traditional shawl on her head, calling her his sister.

Sindh Minister for Works and Services Imdad Pitafi left his seat and headed over to Nusrat Sahar’s seat, where he draped a traditional shawl over the PML-F leader’s head and apologised to her.

Nusrat accepted his apology and said that she had forgiven Pitafi for the sake of the shawl.

“For the sake of this dupatta and because he called me his sister, I am forgiving him. It is a tradition in Sindh that when a shawl is used as a sign of forgiveness, then the other person accepts it,” she added.

She said it is upsetting when arguments like the one that broke out between her and Pitafi take place in the assembly.

“What happened on Friday should not have taken place, it’s regrettable,” Nusrat Sahar said in the assembly hall. “Mine and my son’s feelings were hurt.”

“I had decided of taking an extreme step,” she maintained. “But Bilawal and Bakhtawar Bhutto understood me.”

Nusrat Sahar had threatened prior to the assembly session that she would set herself on fire if Imdad Pitafi was not removed as provincial minister in the next two days.

Clutching a bottle of petrol in one hand, the PML-F leader had threatened that she would douse herself in petrol and burn herself if justice was not served in two days.

She had given an ultimatum of two days to the Pakistan People’s Party to fire Sindh Minister for Works and Services, Imdad Pitafi.=DNA

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