December 07, 2006	Thursday	Ziqa'ad 15, 1427

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Members of the opposition in the Senate on Wednesday submitted an adjournment motion to the senate secretariat seeking discussion on the incident in which an employee of an intelligence agency was arrested for planting a bomb outside the NWFP chief minister's office in Peshawar on Tuesday.

The motion has been submitted under Rule 74 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate 1988 and it carried signatures of eight opposition senators, belonging to People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N), Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and Awami National Party (ANP).

The opposition Senate members in their motion stated that NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani at a press conference had stated that an employee of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Mohammad Tufail, had been arrested red-handed by police when he was planting a bomb in a dustbin outside his Peshawar office.

"Mr Tufail, the culprit, was arrested and was taken to a nearest police station with the explosive material. The IB's joint director, Peshawar, rushed to the police station and took away Mohammad Tufail and the explosive material with him," says the motion.

A source in the opposition told Dawn that the main objective behind filing of the motion was to bring the role and working of all secret and intelligence agencies under discussion on the floor of the Upper House.

The motion has been signed by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Raza Rabbani, ANP's Ilyas Bilour, Prof Khurshid Ahmed of the MMA, Sardar Mahtab Abbasi and Sadia Abbasi of the PML-N and Enver Baig, Dr Safdar Abbasi and Dr Babar Awan of the PPP.