He was responding to opposition leader Chaudary Zaheerud Din’s call attention notice during Monday’s session. He said that two responsible officers have been posted as their replacements in a bid to enhance security situation in the province.
Sanaullah told the house that four people were killed and 12 injured in the bomb blast at the shrine of Hazrat Baba Fareedud Din Gunj Shakar. The law minister rejected the suggestion that the bomb blast was a result of poor security arrangements. He said that the blast did not take place at the northern gate, as was initially reported. Instead, he said, the bomb had exploded at the entrance on the market side.
Sanaullah said that the government had increased the number of security officials deployed at the shrine from 60 to 83. He said he had checked all intelligence reports and there was no evidence of a security lapse at the shrine.
Shafugta Shaikh said that inmates at the Kasur district jail were suffering from skin infections. She said that there were no doctors at the jail to examine these prisoners.
On this, Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal said that the prisoners should be provided with all the facilities they were entitled to.
Earlier, opposition member Naseem Lodhi urged the Speaker to declare the income generated from the sale of alcoholic beverages as illegal. Lodhi, a former provincial minister, said Islam prohibited production and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Without commenting on the issue, Speaker asked her that she had been a cabinet member herself, “Why didn’t you declare it illegal then?”
Published in The Express Tribune, December 7th, 2010.
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