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Adjournment motions submitted in Senate and National Assembly
- Imran Khan says the interior minister should either respond or resign
Pakistan Peoples Party (PP) is demanding immediate resignation of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar in the wake of a scathing inquiry commission report on the Quetta Civil Hospital carnage. The party has submitted adjournment motions in both upper and lower houses of the Parliament.
The motion says that Pakistan has seen enough terrorist attacks without any accountability. It is time that those in power must be held accountable as thins cannot be allowed to go as they are. There is a need for systematic changes.
“This reaffirms our view that Minister of Interior is incapable or unable to play his role in combating terrorism and therefore, demand that he resign immediately,” added the adjournment motion.
The motion calls for a debate on the state of national security in the light of the report by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The motion submitted in the National Assembly was signed by PPP’s Nafisa Shah, Syed Naveed Qamar, Abdul Sattar Bachani and others.
The motion in the Senate stated that the inquiry report presents a “damning indictment of the government’s commitment and execution of NAP”.
The motion submitted in the Senate was signed by PPP’s Senator Sherry Rehman among others.
The report was compiled by an inquiry commission formed to look into the 8 August Quetta carnage. It calls for banning terrorist organisations without any delay by enforcing the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) in letter and spirit.
Imran raises questions over government’s performance
Speaking on the report on Quetta Civil Hospital Imran Khan says that it raises question marks over the government’s performance, and called out Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar over the report’s findings and said the minister should either respond or resign.
An inquiry commission under the Supreme Court on Thursday slammed the federal interior minister, Balochistan chief minister and home minister for providing misleading information, following the deadly terrorist attack in Quetta which claimed 70 lives and injured 112 people in August this year.
The commission criticised the government and state apparatus in its “monumental failure to combat terrorism and perform basic protocols”.
People don’t know what ‘U-turn’ means: Khan
The PTI chairman said people don’t know what ‘U-turn’ actually means.
“Telling lies is U-turn,” Imran Khan said.
The PTI chief said he would attend the parliament’s session the day the prime minister appears before the parliament and presents his response.
Khan further said terrorism in the country has declined as a result of Pakistan Army’s operations against terrorists.
