Govt mulls building bunkers along LoC, Qureshi tells Senate
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February 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said in the Senate Monday that the government was considering building bunkers to protect 1.1 million Kashmiris along the Line of Control from India’s unprovoked firing and shelling.
Making a policy statement in the House while concluding the debate on two motions moved by JI’s Sirajul Haq and Mushtaq Ahmed, the minister said: “We have to be careful and hitting only the military targets, whereas Indian forces resort to aggression devoid of such compassion”.
Mr Qureshi brushed aside the opposition Senators contention that Pakistan was facing isolation owing to the incumbent government’s failed foreign policy and insisted that India was facing isolation and fingers were being raised at it what the RSS government with Hindutva mindset was resorting to in India and Occupied Kashmir. He referred to a wide coverage of the same in the weste
Treasury, opp poles apart on islands issue
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January 12, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The treasury and the opposition in the Senate on Monday were poles apart on the issue of Sindh and Balochistan islands’ going into control of the Centre, as the former defended the move as constitutional while the later termed it a bid towards one unit.
Personal attacks and insinuations marred the proceedings, as the house resumed after a two-day break with Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani in the chair. The house had a discussion on the opposition’s motion on the alarming propensity of the federal government to usurp and subvert parliamentary and provincial rights guaranteed in the Constitution by attempting to rule the country by ordinances, especially the current case of attempted illegal land grab of Sindh and Balochistan’s islands as well as resources.
Treasury, opposition clash on islands issue in Senate
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January 12, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The treasury and the opposition in the Senate on Monday were poles apart on the issue of Sindh and Balochistan islands going into control of the Centre, as the former defended the move as constitutional while the later termed it a bid towards One Unit.
Personal attacks and insinuations marred the proceedings, as the house resumed after a two-day break with Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani in the chair. The house had a discussion on the opposition’s motion on the alarming propensity of the federal government to usurp and subvert parliamentary and provincial rights guaranteed in the Constitution by attempting to rule the country by ordinances, especially the current case of attempted illegal land grab of Sindh and Balochistan’s islands as well as resources.