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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
PPP files motion against Hangu drone attack in SenateISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Monday submitted an adjournment motion in the Upper House of parliament against the US drone strike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu District, which killed at least five people. The motion was submitted by senior PPP leader Raza Rabbani in the Senate Secretariat to be taken up for discussion in the next session. On Monday, President Mamnoon Hussain summoned the session of the Senate on December 2. The motion mentioned that drone strikes conducted in settled areas of Pakistan are a blatant violation of international laws and the issue needed immediate discussion in the Upper House. The PPP had already moved a motion against the drone attack in Hangu in the National Assembly. It was moved by MNAs Shazia Marri, Azra Afzal, Nafeesa Shah, Abdul Sattar Bachani, Syed Naveed Qamar and Imran Zafar Leghari and is to be discussed in the next session of the House that will be held on December 5. The US drone strikes are the hottest issue in the country, and another opposition party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has taken the extreme step of blocking the NATO supplies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, presently ruled by it, against the Hangu drone strike, which also killed a key member of the Haqqani network, dreaded by the US and coalition forces in Afghanistan. staff report
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