Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs has emphasized upon taking steps for dealing with massacre of Shiite Muslims and inexcusable treatment with minorities in Pakistan.
Meeting of Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs was held Wednesday in the parliament house under the chairmanship of Senator Haji Adeel.
Member of the standing committee, Senator Mustafa Kamal said that importance should be attached with the situation of human rights in Pakistan.
He said the members of Shiite community are being murdered while targeted killing of workers of some political parties is also on the rise.
Senator Haji Adeel said the government has no choice other than to deal with the unwarranted treatment meted out to minorities of which the world community is taking notice.
While briefing the committee about genocide of Muslims in Burma, state minister for foreign affairs, Malik Ammad Khan said Pakistan has recorded its protest over the massacre while a resolution against the brutal killings, has also been passed in the parliament.
President Asif Ali Zardari has also written a letter to the Burmese President whereas the ambassador of Pakistan to Burma has visited the affected areas, the state minister added.
Malik Ammad Khan said Bangladesh had reservations regarding the migration of the affectees to Burma.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs apprised the committee that during the last two years, appointment of ambassadors of Pakistan to 15 countries has been made based on favoritism, such that the appointees also include five retired army generals.
Displaying backlash over absence of the high ups of foreign ministry in the meeting, Senate’s standing committee on foreign affairs confirmed that though bureaucracy wants to fail the democratic government and parliamentary committees, such attempts would not succeed.
The committee delayed the privilege motion related with the bureaucracy from sending it to the relevant committee when members of the standing committee from the government stopped it from taking any such action.
Senator Haji Adeel informed the committee that the contract between Pakistan and the US with reference to restoration of NATO supply routes would be discussed during the next meeting.
