Pakistan, Sept. 10 -- A Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights hearing descended into a heated exchange between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Abid Sher Ali and Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Aimal Wali Khan on Wednesday during questioning of Suthra Punjab officials over the suicide of a sanitary worker in Gujranwala.

The committee, chaired by Senator Samina Mumtaz Zehri, was examining the case of a Gujranwala Waste Management Company employee who took his own life, reportedly after receiving half his salary and having his contract terminated.

Khan was pressing Suthra Punjab officials with pointed questions when Ali objected to the tone of questioning, saying, "Listen to them - you are conducting an inquiry and aski...