ISLAMABAD Jan 7: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Friday submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly seeking a debate on recent clashes between Pakistani and Afghan armies in the North Waziristan Agency.

The motion was submitted by MMA's Deputy Secretary General Liaquat Baloch. Earlier on Thursday the MMA had submitted two calling attention notices on recent increase in petroleum products and Railway fares.

The adjournment motion was signed by Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, Asadullah Bhutto, Shabbir Ahmed Khan, Sahibzada Haroonur Rashid, Qari Gul Rahman, Farid Ahmed Paracha, Mian Mohammad Aslam, Mohammad Hussain Mehnati and Dr Ataur Rahman.

It seeks to discuss Pakistan's current Afghanistan policy and said the government had bowed to American diktats to end Taliban rule besides saying that Indian intelligence agents were busy hatching conspiracies against Pakistan.

The Afghan government, it said, was hurling allegations against Pakistan of violating its frontiers which has increased the regional volatility. Shabbir Ahmed Khan, MMA's MNA from Peshawar, submitted two separate calling-attention notices signed by Sabir Hussain Awan, Kaniz Aisha Munawar, Inayat Begum, Mohammad Usman Khan, Dr Fareed Ahmed Paracha, Dr Attaur Rahman and Mian Mohammad Aslam.

The notice about the increase in prices of petroleum products said that the increase had an avalanche effect on prices of all other essential items and affected the poor and the working class.

Through the other notice, the alliance's legislators expressed concern over the five per cent recent rise in railway fares and said that it would affect the common man. They urged the government to withdraw the increase in petroleum prices and railway fares.