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Pakistan submitted detailed dossiers, Sartaj tells NA

Indian involvement

By our correspondents
November 21, 2015
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to PM on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz Friday in the National Assembly rejected the media report that Pakistan had not submitted detailed dossiers on Indian involvement in Pakistan.
“The dossiers envisage substantial material about the Indian intervention in Fata, Karachi and Balochistan,” he said while responding to supplementary question in the National Assembly during the question hour.
Sartaj Aziz told the National Assembly that the information would help build a narrative that India was patronising the terrorists’ elements in Pakistan.
Responding to another question, he said that Pakistan and Belarus had signed a number of agreements and MoUs for promotion of bilateral relations in different fields.
He said both the countries had established a business council which would help bring investment from Belarus.
Sartaj Aziz said that 188 Pakistani pilgrims were martyred in Mina incident and only three Pakistanis were still unaccounted for.
Meanwhile, the National Assembly unanimously passed the Pakistan Health Research Council Bill, 2015 and the Cantonments (Amendment) Bill, 2015.
The Senate had already passed the Cantonments (Amendment) Bill, 2015 under Article 140A of the Constitution the power to hold elections of the local government in Cantt Areas stands vested with the Election Commission of Pakistan and in order to bring the local government election within the purview of the Election Commission of Pakistan, necessary amendment made in the Cantonment Ordinance, 2002 (CXXXVII of 2002).At the outset of the session, the National Assembly observed one minute silence over the deadly terrorist attacks in Lebanon and Paris.