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Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) submitted 14 adjournment motions on Wednesday to the National Assembly Secretariat to deal with the number of issues being faced by the country, urging the speaker to take up the issues in the upcoming session of the House scheduled for January 24.
The PML-Q's members of the National Assembly including Faisal Saleh Hayat, Marvi Memon, Humayun Saifullah, Amir Muqam, Attiya Inayatullah and Riaz Hussain Pirzada submitted following adjournment motions for the upcoming session of National Assembly.
Through an adjournment motion, the PML-Q's members sought debate of the House on the alleged US interference in Pakistan's sovereignty including news of US security guards for President of Pakistan. The House has also been urged to discuss Pakistan's financial crisis, bad governance and corruption by the government through another adjournment motion, besides seeking debate at the House on gas, electricity loadshedding and price hike in the country.
The party has also expressed serious concerns over the Karachi's worsening law and order situation in particular and the rest of the country in general and urged the speaker to allow the House to discuss the matter.
The other adjournment motions submitted by the PML-Q's members to the National Assembly Secretariat include, government's failure to honour the promises made at election time, lack of tolerance in society leading to murders based on religion, sect, ethnicity or gender, threat to all health and public sector organisations including PIA and selling of its routes, the equitable sharing of hydel, oil and gas royalty to provinces as per their production/source including compensation to locals, girls schools being blown up in the country including increasing human rights violations and rapes, follow up on climate change crisis like Attabad and floods countrywide including the man made criminal negligence in both, missed promises on Aghaze Huqooqe Balochistan, Indian human rights atrocities in Indian Held Kashmir and water theft from Pakistan, failed promises for upholding government's own austerity plan and the budget priorities and mid year budgetary review.
Party's MNA Marvi Memon, while talking about the adjournment motions, claimed that her party has been the only real constructive opposition, bringing the real issues to the Parliament being confronted the people of the country and vowing to continue raising the issues related to the wellbeing of the people.
While the party's MNAs have also submitted a number of other adjournment motions, urging the House to hold discussion in its upcoming session. These are prevalence of HIV/ Aids in Pakistan and lack of effective strategy to deal with it, brutal assassination of Wali Khan Babar and also to discuss the increasing incidents of violence against media personnel in the last three years, the alleged Interior Ministry's threatening our sovereignty by ordering all federal and provincial authorities to expedite setting up anti-terrorism security apparatus in Pakistan that would be linked to the US monitoring mechanism.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2011

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