ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: It was another day of embarrassment for the ruling PPP in the Senate when Chairman Nayyar Bokhari found no option but to abruptly adjourn the session after members of its allies and opposition parties walked out of the house over what they called the non-serious attitude of the government towards the unabated target killings in Karachi.

Soon after completion of the question-hour session and the presentation of a report of the house committee of defence by its chairman Mushahid Hussain Syed, senators belonging to the ANP, MQM and opposition walked out of the house announcing they would not sit in the house till Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf himself reached there and made a statement on violence in Karachi.

Disgusted at Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s persistent absence, the senators declared that they would not listen to him even if he turned up in the house.

“For the past three months, we have been discussing the law and order situation in the house but there is no one to take notes. Yesterday the law minister had assured that the prime minister would come to the house on Wednesday, but he is not here even today. When the government is not ready to take the house into confidence, there is no use of sitting here,” ANP’s Zahid Khan said.

Leader of the House Jahangir Badr informed the members that the prime minister did try to contact him in the day, but since he was out of the city in connection with the PPP’s rally in Mandi Bahauddin, the programme could not be finalised.

He assured the house that the prime minister would come to the house on Thursday.