ISLAMABAD:
Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior and Narcotics Control unanimously passed on Tuesday a resolution condemning Indian aggression on both the Line of Control (LoC) and the working boundary.
The resolution came hours after Pakistani and Indian military officials spoke by hotline after days of intense cross-border firing in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Some nine members of the NA committee, including Federal Minister for Science and Technology Zahid Hamid, criticised Indian troops whose unprovoked shelling has killed least 12 Pakistani citizens and injured 50 others in the past two weeks.
The resolution – moved by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) MNA Naeema Kishwar Khan -- urged the United Nations to take notice of continued Indian aggression on the border.
The resolution urged the UN to resolve the issue of Kashmir in light of its resolution passed soon after both countries got independence.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement MNA Nabil Gabol pressed the government to respond to India with full force. He suggested the NA panel should visit the villages and towns along the border and condole with bereaved families.
“The committee’s chairman Rana Shamim should talk to commanders of the Pakistan Army and civilian administration to execute the proposed plan,” Gabol suggested.
Narrating his experience after visiting bereaved families in the Sialkot sector of the border, Zahid said: “We were lucky enough, Indian troops started shelling soon after we left the bordering areas.”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 15th, 2014.
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