Summary Awami National Party has demanded that Army should be deployed in Karachi for restoration of peace.
ISLAMABAD: Law and order situation in Karachi was discussed in the sessions of National Assembly and Senate. The ANP and PML-N’s members staged walkout from the House, finding interior minister Rehman Malik absent in the House.
While expressing his views regarding chaotic situation in the metropolis, Zahid Khan said only prediction of likely dangers in Karachi is not enough; rather it needed special and sober measures to restore law and order situation in Karachi.
On these grounds, the ANP has demanded deployment of Army in the city so that mercantile activities may be resumed as early as possible.
Other members of the parliament also expressed their concern over law and order situation in Karachi and said that proper action should be taken in this regard.
The demand came in the wake of the killing of two teachers and a student of a seminary who were gunned down in a brazen attack on their hi-roof van on Karachi’s Sharae Faisal.
The attack follows Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s recent statement that Karachi could witness bloodshed in the coming days and that he had credible information about it.
Also during the session, senators from the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F) staged a walk out from the parliament’s upper house in protest against the imposition of governor rule in Balochistan.
Senator Talha Mahmood of the JUI-F said if the governor rule in Balochistan was not soon replaced with a government of the province’s elected representatives, members of the JUI-F would stage a sit-in inside the parliament.
All of them also unanimously agreed that despite poor law and order situation in Karachi, general elections should not be delayed.
