Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Khursheed Shah Friday urged all the stakeholders including the political parties to sit together and ponder over the situation emerging in the country.
While expressing concerns over deteriorating law and order situation in the country, Shah regretted that routine life activities stood crippled across the country. “We should restrain from doing politics of vote bank,” he told the Lower House.
During the question-answer session, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in his written reply said that India had adopted an ‘aggressive’ attitude owing to the upcoming elections in the country, adding that the current circumstances require New Delhi to review its policy of confrontation. “Kulbhushan Yadav’s case is being heard in the International Criminal Court with the next hearing scheduled for February 18, 2019,” the reply stated.
“There are 10,811 Pakistanis imprisoned abroad. In Saudi Arabia, 3,000 Pakistanis are languishing in jails while there has been an increase in the number of Pakistanis in Turkish prison cells. As of now, there are 30,000 Pakistanis in Turkish prisons,” the statement stated, in reply to another question. “Prime Minister Imran Khan has offered to mediate the crisis in Yemen,” the statement maintained, in response to a question.
Agha Hassan Baloch of the Balochistan National Party pointed out quorum. On counting, the House was not found in order and the chair adjourned the session to meet again on Monday at 5pm.
Published in Daily Times, November 3rd 2018.
