ISLAMABAD, July 15: Jamaat-i-Islami senators have submitted in the Senate Secretariat three adjournment motions and a calling attention notice.

In one adjournment motion, Senators Prof Khursheed Ahmad, Prof Mohammad Ibrahim Khan and Aafia Zia sought debate on a Transparency International report which said that corruption in Pakistan had reached Rs30 trillion during the past three years.

They said that losses caused by corruption allegedly in Pakistan Steel Mills, National Insurance Company Limited and rental power plants and the Haj scam were not included in the embezzled amount of Rs30 trillion.

Through another motion submitted on Thursday, they urged the Senate to discuss recent increase in price of domestic gas to Rs1,450 per cylinder following a hike of Rs18 per kg in LPG rates by the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority.

The senators expressed concern over the killing of scores of people in the US drone attacks in North and South Waziristan Agencies and in a motion alleged that the government was not serious about stopping these attacks.

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