Abbas Town blasts: Sindh government, intelligence agencies draw ire of Senators

The Sindh government as well as the intelligence agencies came under severe criticism in Senate Monday over Abbas Town bomb blasts. The lawmakers said destruction of such a huge magnitude reflects as if there exists no writ of the government. They demanded of the government to hold a thorough investigation into incident, which claimed over 50 precious lives due to negligence of the provincial authorities.
The police including Rangers were busy in providing security to VVIPs, attending Sharmila Farooqi engagement ceremony. The port city was soaked into blood while the police and rescue teams could not reach the spot despite passage of three hours as they had no clue of the incident, they said, adding that the engagement ceremony of high the profile adviser to Sindh chief minister Sharmila Farooqi went on uninterrupted and there was nobody from government side to console with the aggrieved families. The articulate Senator Mushahidullah Khan of PML-N stood up and in his fiery style explained the whole situation through couplets of different poets, but alas the puppet treasury had nothing to say but all smiles.
"Did we accomplish our responsibility as lawmakers? Is there any place in Karachi which is not soaked in blood? The best ever civilised, literary, cultured city of Jinnah has been turned into a terror den - these are the questions we need to find an immediate answer," he lambasted.
The PML-N stalwart drew the attention of the chair, saying: "The interior minister who is a terrorism expert, knows nothing except forewarning, which is not enough, [and] but there is no one to take action...when the destiny of nation will be at hands of such vultures, the blood of innocent will keep on flowing."
The main focus of Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf is 'Islami Jamahiriya Gojar Khan' instead of Islamic Republic of Pakistan as he had diverted all his energies towards his constituency. "The country is burning [and] is this time to focus only at one constituency [Gojar Khan]," he lamented. The criticism was so harsh that forced deputy chairman Senate Sabir Baloch to exchange pleasantries with Mushahidullah in a bid to divert his attention, saying, "If we have missed something important, why do not you tell us."
The smart move by Sabir Baloch to pacify him turned into an embarrassment when the literary maestro Mushiudllah struck back, saying, "We kept on reminding you to nab the killers of late Benazir and follow in the footprints of a leader like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto but your lust for power left you nowhere, what else we could have done".
He continued that the PPP's so-called reconciliatory politics came as a blow to some real and close aides of late Benazir like Raza Rabbani, Aitzaz Ahsan, Jahangir Badr, etc. Had these people been given a chance, the country would not have suffered like this, he lamented and wrapped up his speech with a painful Urdu couplet: "Zindagi nangi hei beiwah ki kalyi ki tarha [the life is naked like the wrist of a widow]."
Senator Ghafoor Haideri of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) who also staged a walkout from the house against government failure to control law and order in Karachi, expressed shock over government apathy to control the terrorist and said that people of Balochistan have already raised their voice through UNSC and if things remained the same, the people of Karachi will have no option but to approach UNSC. Senator Raza Rabbani said that the current spade of terrorism in Karachi is the repercussion of recently signed MoU with China regarding Gwadar Port handover to Chinese company and agreement between Iran and Pakistan for IP gas pipeline.
He said that the international powers are not happy when Pakistan takes decisions on its own without consulting the policemen of the world. The time has come that the government must act or it will be too late as international actors, he added, are out to weaken Pakistan.
Senator Farough Nasim of MQM said there is dire need for city policing, which can cope with the increasing trend of terrorism which has made the life common man miserable. Senator Kalsoom Perveen of BNP-Awami termed Karachi incident as an international conspiracy to create rift among different sects, and destabilise Pakistan to achieve their nefarious designs.