Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Saturday submitted adjournment motion in the Senate Secretariat against the torture and arrest of the participants of the long-march of Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC). The motion has been submitted by JI senators, Professor Khurshid Ahmed and Professor Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, seeking debate of the Upper House of the Parliament on the issue.
The adjournment motion has been moved on the basis of electronic and print media reports of November 27 of police torture and arrest of the participants of the long-march. The motion stated that hundreds of SIC workers and leaders and administrators of seminaries have been arrested from across the country particularly from Punjab, while most of the leaders have been put under house arrest. The senators condemned the torture and arrest of the political workers, saying that staging protest demonstration is the fundamental and democratic right of the people.