Summary Ghauri said PPB 2014 is dictatorial, draconian, inhumane, blood shedding, satanic and merciless.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) contacted Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Awami National Party (ANP) on Friday to oppose Protection of Pakistan Bill (PPB) in Senate. Jamaat Islami (JI) Chief also termed the bill a violation of basic human rights, Dunya News reported.
According to reports, MQM has started seeking support of opposition parties in senate to oppose the Pakistan Protection Bill.
Senator Babar Ghauri said that opposition will not let the bill be approved in Senate.
MQM’s parliamentary leader in Pakistan’s upper house, Babar Khan Ghauri contacted opposition leader Senator Aitzaz Ahsan, Awami National Party’s parliamentary leader Haji Adeel and Pakistan Muslim League Quaid’s (PMLQ) Senator Kamil Ali Agha over phone and exchanged views over the Protection of Pakistan Bill which has already been approved by National Assembly.
Ghauri said that PPB 2014 is dictatorial, draconian, inhumane, blood shedding, satanic and merciless.
He said that MQM will protest the bill at every level. Senator Aitzaz Ahsan, Senator Haji Adeel and Senator Kamil Ali Agha said while agreeing to MQM’s point of view, that PPB 2014 will strongly be opposed in Senate and that there’s no way Senate will let the bill be approved.
Leaders of all four political parties agreed on devising a joint strategy to defeat the bill in Senate after terming it contrary to the basic principles of human rights.
