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Monday, September 05, 2011
Shahbaz Taseer’s abductionOpp urges CM to give answers in Punjab Assembly
By Hussain Kashif
LAHORE: Opposition in the Punjab Assembly (PA) has urged Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif to appear before the provincial assembly in its next session and inform as to why Shahbaz Taseer has not been recovered as yet.
The opposition had, on August 30, submitted a requisition in PA Notice Branch to call an assembly session over the issue of Shahbaz’s abduction. According to the rules and regulations of PA, the Speaker is bound to call the session within the next 14 days of requisition’s submission.
In a press statement on Sunday, opposition’s Deputy Parliamentary Leader in PA Shaukat Mehmood Basra claimed that the PML-N had failed to recover Shahbaz and was showing neglect in the case. He added that the government had been unable to trace any clues about Shahbaz’s whereabouts or the kidnappers despite a lapse of ten days.
Talking to Daily Times, Basra said that Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, soon after the kidnapping, had claimed that the abductors belonged to Waziristan and they would be traced out within the next 24 hours.
“The law minister should take the PA into confidence over the issue and fulfil his promise of recovering Shahbaz Taseer,” he said, adding that the Taseer family had already given a huge sacrifice by losing one of their family members, slain former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer.
Basra said that the CM should avoid practicing a politics of “show-off” and must put an end to his claims of “good governance” since all such claims had been proven wrong after the kidnapping of Shahbaz Taseer from PML-N’s stronghold, Punjab, where the security was always said to be on high alert.
Condemning the CM’s absence in the last five assembly sessions, Basra asked the CM to join the next assembly session and answer opposition’s questions. He also appealed to the Election Commission of Pakistan to take notice of Shahbaz Sharif’s absence from assembly during the previous five sessions. Terming PML-N’s Ashiana Housing Scheme for the poor as an “Afsana Housing Scheme” (a fictitious housing scheme), he said, “Shahbaz Sharif was just busy in making fake announcements with the aim of point scoring.”
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk