ISLAMABAD, Nov 27 The members of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) on Saturday submitted an adjournment motion to the National Assembly Secretariat seeking debate on a US report according to which the Pakistan government had agreed to allow foreign troops' presence in Balochistan.

Through the motion the PML-N members have expressed their concern over “the report submitted by the Pentagon to the US Congress according to which Pakistan has allowed the US military and its coalition partners in Afghanistan to maintain a presence in Quetta”.

The motion that carries the signatures of 20 MNAs states “Earlier reports in the US media revealed that Pakistan also had allowed the CIA (Central Investigation Agency) to expand its presence in the city.”

The members regretted that the parliament had never been taken into confidence over the increased presence of the US within the country and all such “reports have further aggravated the serious concerns being felt by the people of Pakistan as to its implications for the nation's sovereignty and security situation in general and Balochistan in particular”.

“The members state that the matter merits urgent discussion in the parliament for which all the other business of the house should be suspended,” said the document.