The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led KP government on Wednesday submitted a resolution to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Secretariat against drone attacks.
The text of resolution was handed over to KP Assembly secretary by lawmakers headed by PTI parliamentary leader Shaukat Ali Yousufzai. Senior Ministers Sirajul Haq and Sikandar Hayat Sherpao represented the Jamaat Islami and the Qaumi Watan Party respectively.
Through the resolution, the KP government showed concern over the US drone attacks in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. They urged the federal government to take steps to bring an end to these attacks.
On August 28, 2012, the KP Assembly urged the federal government to stop drone attacks. Through a resolution, then provincial assembly had also urged the federal government to raise voice against the killings of Muslims in Myanmar (Burma).
The resolution was jointly drafted, signed and moved by former opposition leader Akram Khan Durrani, late senior minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour and former information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, former PPP lawmaker Abdul Akbar Khan, PML-Q legislators Qalandar Khan Lodhi. Former lawmakers Nargis Samin Jan and PML-N’s Pir Sabir Shah, Inayatullah Jadoon and Javed Abbasi, and Mufti Kifayatullah from JUI-F were also signatories of the resolution.
The resolution said, “This August house strongly condemns drone strikes on Fata and demanded the federal government to take serious steps to stop killings of innocent people in these attacks. Drone strikes are against sovereignty of Pakistan.” The house passed the resolution unanimously.
KP govt submits resolution against drone attacks
