Punjab opposition strikes the police raids before the August 5 demonstration

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Lahore:

The opposition to the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday strongly condemned the police raids on the residences of its AMPs and the alleged harassment of their families before the demonstration of Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) on August 5.

While the session of the Assembly began under the president of the acting speaker, Malik Zaheer Iqbal Channer, the deputy chief of the opposition Muhammad Moeenuddin Riaz raised the question on a point of order, seriously expressing what he described as preventive repression.

“There are still several days left on August 5, but police officials have already started to make raids in the residences of our AMPs,” he said.

“It is regrettable that the families of our amps and workers are also harassed by the Punjab police,” he added, demanding that the minister of Law immediately took notice of the situation.

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RIAZ also expressed its disappointment as to the delay in the formation of a committee to investigate a previous incident involving an attack and the use of an abusive language against the AMP of the opposition by the private guards of the treasury legislators.

However, the provincial minister for parliamentary affairs, Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman, did not know the raids. “It is not to my knowledge,” he said, while assuring the House that he would contact senior police officials and the house service to get more information.

Later, opposition deputy Tayyab Rashid raised concerns about the illegal trade in human bodies, alleging that renal transplant racket operated in Sheikhupura “under the nose of chief Minister Maryam Nawaz”.

He criticized the government for targeting the opposition instead of solving urgent problems affecting the public. “The government should relax from the opposition and do something for the needy masses,” he said.

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The MPA PPP Qazi Ahmad Saeed also spoke on the ground, highlighting an alleged scandal of water theft. He said influential people diverted water from the canal on their own lands, leaving poor farmers helpless. “They hit the doors several times from the authorities concerned, but their efforts proved to be futile,” he said in the Assembly.

From the Treasury benches, the MPA Amjad Ali Javed raised a problem concerning the policies of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), declaring that new regulations caused distress among computer students.

He said that the HEC had judged that a computer diploma would not be considered valid without accreditation of a specific council.

“Students who finished two semesters are now deeply concerned about the problem,” said Javed. He urged the HEC to examine and soften the policy in the interest of the future of students.

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