QUETTA – The Balochistan Assembly on Friday reposed full confidence in PPP Co-chairman and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in a unanimous resolution however the provincial coalition’s main ally Jamiat Ulema Islam Fazal’s (JUI-F) ministers abstained.
The joint resolution moved by Engineer Zamarak Khan from Awami National Party (ANP), Muhammad Ismail Gujjar from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Jaffar Khan Mandokhel from Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) was tabled by PPP parliamentary leader Mir Sadiq Umarani.
Sadiq Umarani said the president had received 481 votes from all electoral colleges, provincial assemblies, national assembly and senate that was a very important step for strengthening the democracy in the country. Initiating a debate on an adjournment motion over the killing of Wali Khan Babar, a reporter of Geo television, the mover Jaffar Khan Mandokhel from PML-Q said that innocent people who had gone to Karachi for earning their livelihood were being targeted through a conspiracy.
Zamrarak Khan said that people from Balochistan went to Karachi for labour but they were being targeted and forced to leave Karachi. He added that if government was serious in carrying out operation against land and drug mafias and terrorists in Karachi, the operation should be conducted throughout the Karachi without any discrimination.
Balochistan Awami National Party (ANP) parliamentary leader Asad Baloch said the Baloch youth was being killed in the province and the government should bring their murderers in the court. He added that if they were not given justice by judiciary and parliament, they would seek the intervention of United Nations and NATO in Balochistan.
Other members Mir Aslam Kurd Giloo, Sardar Aslam Bezinjo and Abdul Khaliq Achakzai also condemned the killing of Wali Khan Babar and asked the federal government for an operation under the supervision of army in Karachi. They recommended that government should make Gwadar Port functional which would help end the monopoly of a single party in Karachi.
Balochistan PA says it trusts President Zardari
