Leader of the House Raja Muhammad Zafarul Haq, on a point of order, raised the issue and regretted that India that claimed to be the largest democracy had punished Kashmiri students for mere chanting slogans of long live Pakistan and peacefully cheering the national team’s emphatic victory against India, a few days back in Bangladesh.
He contended that true democracy is impossible without giving fundamental rights to the citizens and recalled how the hungry students were forced to leave a hostel and then bundled up in buses and sent to Kashmir and treason cases filed against all of them. He called this a condemnable act.
Leader of Opposition Senator Aitzaz Ahsan fully supported the Leader of the House and said that such discriminatory attitude in a game then registration of treason cases against the Kashmiri students was extremely deplorable and condemnable.
During the question hour, opposition senators disputed the data of sectarian killings from 2008 to February 2014 and called for referring the matter to the House privileges committee. Senators Zahid Khan and Abdul Nabi Bangash said the media had reported many more had died in the sectarian frenzy in the last five years. Senator Farhat Abbas said she had lost two of her relatives in 2013 in sectarian hits.
On this, Senate Chairman Syed Nayyar Hussain Bokhari said that if they had any proof to share, then he would refer the matter to the concerned House Committee and asked them to provide even press clippings in this context.
In response to a question by Senator Sughra Imam, the Interior Minister said that in all 1710 were killed in sectarian attacks. The highest number of deaths-385-were reported in 2012. Balochistan was on the top of provinces in witnessing sectarian-related killings (675). Among the four provinces, only 146 deaths were reported in Punjab.
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