ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly stating that the country’s aerial and ground boundaries have been violated as a result of the US drone attack targeting Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
The PTI stated that the matter is of national importance and the assembly should take action on it as a priority and halt every other routine matters under discussion in the lower house.
“We wish to submit an adjournment motion under Rule 109 of Rules of Business for adjournment of business of the House to discuss an issue of grave national importance affecting the strategy security of the country and calling into question the ability of the state to protect its territory and airspace.
“This is the issue of the US drone attack on Pakistani soil in Balochistan on Saturday, May 21, ostensibly targeting Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansour and Pakistan govt’s confusion over the target’s identity as well as discovery of a Pakistani NIC and passport on the target in the name of Wali Mohammed,” the motion read.
The PTI posed a number of questions in the motion even questioning the “total lack of clarity on Pakistan’s Afghan policy as well as an evident civil-military disconnect on security policy that have once again come to the fore in the wake of the incident”.
The adjournment motion to the National Assembly secretariat has been signed by six PTI members.
PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi on the subject said that the US has flouted the Pakistani boundaries and the US ambassador to Pakistan should be deported.
The US had conducted a lethal drone strike on Saturday against the leader of the Afghan Taliban, in a remote area of Balochistan, in a mission authorised by US President Barack Obama.
US President Obama on Monday had called the death of the Taliban leader as “a milestone for peace in Afghanistan”, adding that “we have finished off leader of a group which would attack the US and its allies”.