Opposition senators on Friday sought an explanation from Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed over the recent terrorist incidents in the country, including the blast in Lahore on Thursday which claimed the lives of three people.
During the session, the opposition urged Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani to suspend routine proceedings and debate the country’s law and order situation in the wake of the Lahore blast and the killing of a policeman in Islamabad during a shootout.
Addressing the upper house, Senator Raza Rabbani lamented that terror incidents were on the rise in the country.
He said that the Balochistan Liberation Army had claimed responsibility for one of the attacks “while the interior minister said the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan was behind it”. The senator demanded that the minister be summoned to clear the confusion in this regard. “Do the recent incidents not prove that the approach adopted in dealing with the TTP was wrong?” he questioned.