ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq convened a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security today (Thursday) to take up the recent tweet of US President Donald Trump against Pakistan to formulate a joint stance of parliamentary parties as well as of Parliament.
The NA Speaker will chair the meeting being the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security. The meeting would be attended by parliamentary heads of all the parliamentary parties of both the Houses of Parliament in which the top civilian and military officials will brief the committee on the issue of US president’s recent derogatory remarks about Pakistan. Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah in a press talk on Tuesday demanded of convening the meeting so that all parliamentary leader could sit together to formulate a joint stance on anti-Pakistan tweet of US President Donald Trump. According to sources, it is expected that after the Parliamentary Committee decision the government might convene the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament to take up the issue of recent anti-Pakistan tweet of the US President Donald Trump. Though President Mamnoon Hussain summoned session of the National Assembly on January 12 (Friday), it was the possibility that a joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament would be convened by early next week. Meanwhile, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has also submitted the adjournment motion in the National Assembly Secretariat to discuss matter of US President Donald Trump’s recent derogatory remarks about Pakistan. The PPP Parliamentarians Syed Naveed Qamar, Dr Nafisa Shah, Shazia Marri, Nawab Yousaf Talpur, Aijaz Hussain Jhakrani, Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah, Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho and Imran Zafar Leghari submitted the adjournment motion to discuss the US President Donald Trump’s recent derogatory remarks about Pakistan.
Through the adjournment motion, the Pakistan People’s Party legislators stated that US President Donald Trump’s recent derogatory remarks about Pakistan seemed to be an intentional attempt to malign and degrade Pakistan by portraying it supporters’ of terrorism rather than appreciating Pakistan’s dedicated efforts to ensure peace in the region. The adjournment motion stated that propaganda campaign by the US president was a clear attempt to divert world’s attention from its foreign policy failures in South Asia particularly in Afghanistan and Middle East. “Also the paltry amount paid to Pakistan by the US is in no way match the immeasurable sacrifices of Pakistan over the last decade or so,” the adjournment motion stated.
