Senate’s 99th meet: Opposition calls for session to discuss Rawalpindi incident

Requisition is submitted with the signatures of 48 senators.

ISLAMABAD:

The opposition parties in Senate submitted a requisition for summoning the 99th session of the upper house to discuss the Rawalpindi incident. The requisition was submitted on Thursday in the Senate secretariat with the signatures of as many as 48 senators from the three main opposition parties – PPP, PML-Q and ANP.

Alongside the Rawalpindi tragedy, the opposition will also take up the leftover agenda of the previous session which could not be discussed due to protest against Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. The house failed to discuss at length the agenda items of the previous session because of the boycott of opposition members.



Talking to The Express Tribune, PPP leader Senator Raza Rabbani said that the opposition has submitted a requisition in the Senate secretariat which aimed at early summoning of the house session to discuss important issues that the country faced.

In the previous session, the opposition stayed away from the regular proceeding of the house because of the alleged anti-democratic attitude of the interior minister, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 22^nd, 2013.