Resolution against Indian foreign minister filed in PA

Author: Kashif Hussain

LAHORE: Opposition parties in the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday filed a resolution against Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on her statement in United Nation (UN), while Punjab Governor Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana has summoned the 24th session of the assembly on October 14.

The resolution against Indian Minister Sushma Swaraj, who belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and is also a kitchen cabinet member of the Modi Sarkar, has condemned her statement presented in the United Nations in which she termed occupied Kashmir as India’s integral part.

The resolution was submitted by Nabila Hakim Ali, a female member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), in the notice branch of the Punjab Assembly Secretariat. She asserted that Kashmir would not remain the “integral” part of Indian.

The resolution stated that Pakistan would continue its moral and diplomatic support for Kashmir. The opposition legislator demanded the federal government that it should halt all kinds of trade activities with India and expose before the world the involvement of Indian agent Kalboshan Yadoo as well as RAW in the Quetta tragedy.

She also demanded the federal government to impose a complete ban on exhibition of Indian films in Pakistan, besides a ban on entrance of Indian artists in Pakistan.

Hopefully, the abovementioned resolution would be taken up in the House during the next session of the Punjab Assembly, which was summoned by the Punjab governor, exercising his powers conferred under Article 109 of the Constitution. The session would be held under the chair of Speaker Rana Iqbal while a gazette notification was also issued in this regard.

The opposition legislators on Tuesday also filed some separate resolutions in the PA Secretariat. A resolution submitted by Pakistan Muslim League (PML) legislator Amir Sultan Cheema claimed that the Punjab government had failed to stop the sale of injurious milk, adding that citizens should be permitted to keep a cow in their homes in urban areas.

Another resolution, related to the liver transplantation in Sheik Zaid Hospital (SZH), was submitted by PTI member Sabtain Khan. He claimed that around 49 patients of liver diseases died due to non-availability of allocated funds to the hospital. He demanded the government to immediately release Rs 300 million to SZH.