Pakistan’s upper house of parliament passed a unanimous resolution on Tuesday condemning the burning of Qurans at a US base in Afghanistan and demanding that those responsible be punished.
“This house demands investigation and punishment for those who were responsible for this deplorable act,” the resolution said, passed four days after elections widened the main ruling party’s representation in the Senate.
“NATO will have to take steps to stop such irresponsible acts in the future,” added the resolution, presented by Nayyar Bukhari, leader in the Senate from Pakistan People’s Party.
Violent anti-US protests over the Quran burning killed 40 people in Afghanistan, plunging relations between NATO members and their Afghan allies to an all-time low and forcing US President Barack Obama to apologise.
Protests also spilled over into neighbouring Pakistan, where the resolution was passed at a farewell session for the outgoing Senate.
Pakistan’s parliament is tentatively expected to review the country’s own troubled alliance with the United States later this month at a joint session that has been repeatedly delayed.
The review is considered key to getting Pakistani-US diplomatic relations onto a more solid footing after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26 and brought the relationship to its lowest point in years.
The killings capped a disastrous year for an alliance already seriously compromised by a covert raid to kill Osama bin Laden on May 2 and the detention of a CIA contractor who killed two Pakistanis in January 2011.
Islamabad closed its border crossings to NATO supplies and ordered US personnel to leave the Shamsi airbase, reportedly a hub for covert American drone strikes against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal belt.
this is not the first case of blasphemy, we need to react in a dreadful manner this time so that they dont dare repeating it again, they r just testing our ghairat. for the very first time, a blasphemy or anything malpractice sounds very annoying but when the same thing repeats the human mind gets immune to it. i guess they are doing the same with Muslims… i urge whole muslim ummah to react fully in their own capacity to this blunder.
The members of Senate should stop shedding crocodile tears over an issue which they cannot stop now or any time in the future. But they can muster enough MORAL COURAGE to admit their own faults against their own nation only if they possess an iota of the character of a person known widely for his Integrity and Honesty.
too early isn't it??
If something would have happened to their bibi n baba this nation would have reacted in matter of seconds
ONLY condemn ??
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