Ijaz Kakakhel Islamabad
The National Assembly on Friday adjourned its session due to lack of quorum and PPP leader Syed Naveed Qamar told the Speaker this is not the way you run the House
Speaker Asad Qaisar chaired the session during which the members of opposition parties staged protest over summoning the meeting in haste.
How you (Speaker) locked the press gallery during President’s address to joint sitting of parliament. Just in one notification last evening the session of National Assembly was called. “I don’t know how you run the House”, Qamar questioned.
PML-N leader Khawaja Sadd Rafique was of the view that proper time should be given to parliamentarians before summoning the National Assembly.
Another PPP leader Agha Rafiullah told the House that it was for the first time that press gallery was locked and asked the Speaker that it would be associated with your name in the history of parliament. At the same time, he pointed out lack of quorum and the entire opposition members staged walk out.
Before the walk out, a resolution was approved to pay tribute to Hurriyat Leader Syed Ali Gilani. The House unanimously passed a resolution paying glowing tributes to the relentless and valiant struggle of veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Gilani for the right to self-determination of Kashmiri people.
The resolution moved by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan expressed deep grief and sorrow over the death of iconic leader of Kashmiri freedom movement.
The resolution recognized that the late leader devoted all his life for the freedom movement and always raised voice for the rights of oppressed Kashmiri people and against the Indian atrocities.
Syed Ali Gilani gave further impetus to the freedom movement by facing all sorts of oppression including incarceration.
The house noted that the famous words of Syed Ali Gilani that ‘Hum Hain Pakistani Aur Pakistan Hamara Hai (We are Pakistani and Pakistan is ours) became a unanimous slogan of Kashmiri nation. His life is a beacon of light for the Kashmiri youth.
The house strongly condemned the repressive Indian regime for snatching the body of Syed Ali Gilani from his family, denying him the proper burial as per the Muslim traditions and lodging fake cases against the bereaved family. It demanded of the international community especially the Muslim Ummah to stop India from such cheap tactics.
The house expressed the confidence that the Kashmiri people will succeed in their just struggle for right to self-determination.
At the outset, the house offered fateha for the departed souls of Syed Ali Gilani and Balochistan’s former Chief Minister Sardar Ataullah Mengal.
