Punjab PA calls for trying MQM chief for treason

The resolution was tabled by Law Minister Rana Sanaullah which was unanimously adopted by the house


Our Correspondents August 24, 2016
The resolution was tabled by Law Minister Rana Sanaullah which was unanimously adopted by the house. PHOTO: ONLINE

PESHAWAR/ LAHORE/ KARACHI: The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the anti-Pakistan remarks of the MQM chief, while similar resolutions were also moved in the Sindh and Khyber-Pkahtunkhwa assemblies.

In the Punjab Assembly, the resolution was tabled by Law Minister Rana Sanaullah which was unanimously adopted by the house amid vociferous chants of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. The resolution demanded that all those involved in inciting hatred and speaking against the integrity of Pakistan be tried for treason.

The resolution condemned the attack on media houses and violence against journalists perpetrated in the aftermath of Altaf’s telephone speech on Monday. Earlier, PTI’s Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed distributed black armbands among MPAs in the house in protest against Altaf’s speech and the violence that followed.

In Peshawar, PPP lawmaker Nighat Orakzai and Fakhar Azam Khan, and PTI’s Mehmood Jan submitted a resolution in the K-P Assembly Secretariat, calling upon the federal government to bring back Altaf and try him under Article-6 of the Constitution.

The resolution demands a ban on the MQM and states that the K-P lawmakers can’t tolerate a word against Pakistan.  It also denounces the attack on media houses in Karachi.

Meanwhile, PTI MPA Khurram Sher Zaman also moved a resolution in the Sindh Assembly seeking condemnation of Altaf’s speech. The resolution says the house condemns the MQM supporters who raised slogans against the state and those who did not stop their workers from committing vandalism and violence and those who are not willing to condemn these acts.

In Quetta, Balochistan government spokesperson Anwarul Haq Kakar said the MQM chief was not mentally stable, and “it is the time for the patriotic Urdu-speaking people of Karachi to abandon him”.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 24th, 2016.

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