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PML-N aborts anti-militants call in NA
[Dawn] Amid confusing signals over the possibility of a military operation against Taliban bases in North  Wazoo in the wake of the shooting of Swat's schoolgirl activist Malala Yosufzai, the Pakistain Moslem League-N aborted on Tuesday a new government-backed resolution in the National Assembly calling for action against turbans.But before fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... and passionate exchanges on the move, the house saw a period of comparative cordiality when the PML-N conceded to the deletion of a single word from a government bill seeking the establishment of a new drug regulatory authority, leading to its unanimous adoption, after government support enabled a similar passage of a PML-N member's private bill seeking to abolish discretionary quotas in public sector housing schemes in Islamabad. As the PPP-led coalition failed to achieve a house consensus on the resolution which a source said only called for "practical measures" against beturbanned goons in general terms in reaction to the Oct 9 shooting claimed by Taliban, the move was given up even without the draft being moved or read out before the house was prorogued after a 12-day session. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, the leader of opposition in the house, who took the floor twice over the issue, repeatedly accused the government of not implementing most of the previous unanimous parliamentary resolutions and said the new one was being brought as a precursor to a military operation in Waziristan while Swat's runaway Taliban leader Maulvi Fazlullah, who is generally considered as the criminal mastermind of the Mingora attack, was living in Afghanistan. Posted by: Fred 2012-10-18 |
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