The Balochistan Assembly (BA) on Tuesday adopted three separate resolutions, including the one against the recently-imposed governor’s rule in the province.
The two other resolutions passed were against the Bacha Khan Chowk blast and Alamdar Road incident in Quetta where scores of civilians were brutally killed.
Over 16 MPAs, including Balochistan Assembly Speaker Matiullah Agha reached the assembly’s Secretariat, but the Frontier Corps personnel deployed at the gate did not allow the members to enter. However, later the speaker went to the governor and sought his interference who asked the Balochistan chief secretary to allow the members to hold their assembly session, saying that the provincial government had been suspended not the assembly.
It was the first meeting of the Balochistan Assembly chaired by Speaker Syed Matiullah Agha after imposition of governor’s rule in Balochistan. Mir Shahnawaz Marri, Aainullah Shams and Syed Ahsan Shah moved the resolution against imposition of governor’s rule. While debating on the resolution, Marri said dismissal of provincial government was an insult of the members of the House. They demanded the federal government withdraw the notification and allow the provincial government to work.
PPP’s Ali Madad Jatak said they had offered the federal government an in-house change by replacing the chief minister before the decision to impose governor’s rule was taken. Asad Baloch of the Balochistan National Party-Awami (BNP-A) also demanded federal government withdraw the notification.
Shams of the JUI-F said the Balochistan Assembly business had been running peacefully during the last many years, adding “therefore we demand the federal government withdraw notification”. Shah said they had held a meeting with Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf at the Governor’s House and conveyed to him that Aslam Raisani was ready to resign from the office of chief minister and coalition partners of the Balochistan government would accept an in-house change. The speaker put the resolution for voting in the House that passed it unanimously. The second resolution said the provincial assembly was equally aggrieved by the killings in the bomb blasts on Alamdar Road. He said the House strongly condemned the blasts and demanded a judicial inquiry into the incidents. He said the judicial inquiry committee should comprise judges of the Balochistan High Court. Jattak, Shah, Jay Parkash and Dr Abdul Razzaq condemned the blasts and the murder of more than 100 people, saying the perpetrators did not belong to any religion or creed.
