Rohingya Muslims crisis: Adjournment motions submitted in NA, Senate
PPP raised matter of persecution of Rohingya Muslims in lower house while MQM, JUI-F in upper house
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) submitted adjournment motion in National Assembly against the butchering of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
The matter was raised by PPP lawmaker and leader of the lower house, Khurshid Shah, apart from Naveed Qamar, Shazia Marri and other members of the opposition party. They submitted a signature adjournment motion in National Assembly claiming that racial genocide of Rohingya Muslim minority is being carried out by armed forces while whole world including global powers have shown criminal silence. They demanded to stop the normal working and consider the matter which is being raised immediately.
Another adjournment motion was submitted in Senate after the Rohingya crisis was raised by Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and Jamiat Ulema-e Islam-Fazl (JUI-F). MQM leader Mian Muhammad Ateeq Shaikh and JUI-F member Maulana Hafiz Hamdullah submitted their separate petitions in Senate to hold a debate on the matter by adjourning normal working of the upper house.
A resolution, condemning brutal killing of Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, was presented in Punjab Assembly on Tuesday in which the provincial lawmakers strongly denounced the unrest that claimed lives of more than 400 people with thousands escaping to Bangladesh. Similar resolution was submitted in Sindh Assembly.
According to the United Nations, at least 87,000, mostly Rohingya refugees, had arrived in Bangladesh since the latest eruption of violence and around 20,000 more were massed on the border waiting to cross.
