ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Monday submitted an adjournment motion in the Senate, seeking a debate on the “use of state force against tenants of the Okara military farms to force them to give up their demand for ownership rights”. Submitted by Senator Farhatullah Babar, the adjournment motion said that the tenants were protesting in a peaceful manner to highlight their grievances on International Peasants Day on April 17. However, the state, fearing that it would expose its atrocities, retaliated and beat up unarmed farmers, besides arresting dozens other under anti-terrorism laws and National Action Plan (NAP). The motion has expressed apprehensions that the farmers may also be tried in the military courts. “After all if the ATA and NAP can be employed against the farmers, what is there to stop the use of the third instrument namely the military courts against them,” it said.