ISLAMABAD Oct 20: All Parties Democratic Alliance (APDM) and PPP senators on Saturday submitted a jointly signed adjournment motion seeking a debate on the October 18 terrorist attack in Karachi.

It is the first time that the PPP, which after entering into a deal with Musharraf government has distanced itself from the mainstream opposition, has been extended cooperation by the APDM parliamentary groups in the Senate.

Those who have signed the motion from the APDM side include Asfandyar Wali Khan of Awami National Party, Prof Khurshid Ahmed of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), Abdur Rahim Mandokhel of Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party and Saadia Abbasi and Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

From the PPP side the document has been signed by senators Dr Safdar Ali Abbasi, Mohammad Enver Baig, Mian Raza Rabbani, Dr Babar Awan, Sardar Mohammad Latif Khan Khosa and Farooq Naek.

The motion says that the midnight blasts which apparently were aimed to kill PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto was a matter of highest national concern and needed to be debated by the upper house.

It blames the government for failing to control and stop the occurrence. It noted that the street lights were putt off deliberately which seemed to have been done deliberately to give a chance to miscreants in the dark.

The motion further states that soon after the explosions, fire broke out in the vehicles accompanying the PPP chairperson’s truck and bodies were lying in a pool of blood and human limbs scattered everywhere on the scene.