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| July 21, 2006 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 24, 1427 |
Govt slammed for targeting Baloch senators
ISLAMABAD, July 20: Leader of opposition in Senate and People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani has alleged that the government is victimising the senators from Balochistan for raising their voice against the ‘injustices’ being meted out by the government to the people of the province.
Talking to a group of reporters at the PPP Media Centre here on Thursday, the senator termed the actions of the government against the Balochistan senators a breach of their privileges.
Mr Rabbani said on July 16, two brothers of Balochistan National Party Senator Sanaullah Baloch were picked up by the unknown persons. Later, the abductors released one of them, who disclosed that he was in the custody of the security agencies’ personnel.
Mr Rabbani alleged that a brother and a cousin of Jamhoori Watan Party Senator Shahid Bugti were also kidnapped in a similar fashion and their whereabouts were still unknown. He criticized the government and alleged that it was snatching this right of the opposition to speak.
He said those who had been kidnapped had nothing to do with the politics.
Mr Rabbani urged Senator SM Zafar, the chairman of Senate Human Rights Committee, to call a session of the meeting on emergency basis and discuss the matter.
He regretted that courts looked helpless as the reply submitted by the defence secretary to the Sindh High Court stated that his ministry was acting like a post office between the government and the military.
Mr Rabbani said the opposition would raise the issue of kidnappings in the next session of the Senate starting from August 2.
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