The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has filed two adjournment motions in the National Assembly: 1) About arrest of religious leaders and activists to prevent them from joining a rally on February 26 against publication of blasphemous cartoons in European newspapers; and 2) about use of gun-ship helicopters to bombard North Waziristan, killing over 40 innocent women and children on March 1.
Liaquat Baloch, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, Samia Raheel Qazi, Farida Paracha, and others signed the motions, seeking suspension of routine business for holding a debate on these matters in the House. The MMA members contended that the administration had resorted to every possible measure not to let the opposition parties take out a rally in Lahore.
Meanwhile, the opposition will raise in the National Assembly the issue of denying entry to the spouse of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in the President House where President General Pervez Musharraf and US President George W Bush addressed a press conference on Saturday.
"It is insulting that the spouse of an elected prime minister (Rukhsana Aziz) of the host country was not allowed to sit among the elite audience," said Izhar Amrohvi of Alliance for Restoration of Democracy.
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