By IANS,
Islamabad : Security guards of Pakistan’s president and prime minister defied the speaker’s orders banning their entry into parliament and carried guns inside during a joint session, a media report said Wednesday.
National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza had issued an order that banned the entry of armed security guards of ministers as well as carrying of weapons inside the parliament building, the Dawn News reported.
The order was issued before the beginning of the joint session of the National Assembly and the Senate addressed by President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday.
Though MPs and federal ministers followed the order and kept their guards outside the premises, armed security staff of Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and army chief Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani were seen roaming in the corridors of the building.
Sources said the guards snubbed parliament’s security staff when asked to store away their weapons.