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| June 5, 2005 | Sunday | Rabi-us-Sani 27, 1426 |
Motions filed in NA, Senate: LEAs highhandedness
ISLAMABAD, June 4: Opposition members belonging to the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) and other nationalist parties have submitted adjournment motions to the National Assembly and Senate seeking debate on the inhuman treatment of political activists by soldiers and Rangers in Karachi.
ARD parliamentary secretary Izhar Amrohvi told Dawn on Saturday that the opposition members had submitted motions in both the houses keeping in view the seriousness of the matter.
Mr Amrohvi said 15 MNAs and 16 senators had signed the motions, which had been filed on the basis of a photograph in national newspapers, showing Rangers officials maltreating the arrested activists of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) in Karachi.
The motions state: “Recently, a photograph has been published in newspapers showing soldiers torturing and humiliating the arrested activists of the JI in Karachi. The picture shows as such some enemy forces have occupied Karachi and the enemy soldiers are subjecting citizens of Pakistan to torture. Seeing this picture, who will criticize the inhuman behaviour of Israeli forces with Palestinians when our own security forces are using the same methods with Pakistanis.
The matter is of general public importance and needs discussion on the floor of the house after adjourning the normal proceedings.”
The motion, filed in the National Assembly, has been signed by Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, Sherry Rehman, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Syed Naveed Qamar, Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Naheed Khan, Syed Khurshid Shah, Nawab Yousuf Talpur, Zulfiqar Gondal, Nayyar Bukhari, Qamaruzzaman Kaira, Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi, Abdul Rauf Mengal and Ghulam Murtaza Satti.
The similar motion filed in the Senate has been signed by opposition leader Mian Raza Rabbani, Ishaq Dar, Dr Safdar Abbasi, Amanullah Kanrani, Dr Abdullah Riar, Sajjad Bukhari, Enver Baig, Raza Mohammad Raza, Sardar Mahtab Abbasi, Sanaullah Khan Baloch, Rukhsana Zuberi, Asfandyar Wali, Farooq Naek, Sadia Abbasi, Sardar Latif Khosa and Farhatullah Khan Babar.
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