The Senate was adjourned on Wednesday shortly after expressing shock over the plane crash and offering fateha for the passengers, killed in a private airline which was crashed into the Margalla hills of federal capital. The Senators expressed condolence over the several lives in the passenger plane crash tragedy and urged the government to investigate the incident transparently and announce compensation for the victim families.
They also called upon the government to establish an information desk to provide information as well as handing over dead bodies to the families of victims. After reciting of the Holy Quran, Leader of House in Senate Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari said that it is a big tragedy. He said that Prime Minister has also announced one-day mourning to express sympathies with bereaved families.
Senator Ahmed Ali of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) flayed the government for its poor arrangements to facilitate the families of the victims who were stuck in the airports soon after the tragic incident of the plane crash.
Colonel Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi (Retd) demanded the government to initiate a thorough probe into the incident besides compensating the victims' families. Federal Minister for Social Welfare and Special Education Samina Khalid Ghurki informed the House that information desks have been set up at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi airports to facilitate the victims' families.
Minister for Ports and Shipping Babar Ghauri said that a transparent inquiry into the incident must be ordered to ascertain the facts behind the incident. Jamal Leghari demanded the government that to make the inquiry report of a plane crash, which took place in Multan some four years ago besides initiating a transparent inquiry into the Wednesday plane crash in Islamabad.