MQM submits Deweaponisation Bill to Senate Secretariat

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ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday submitted a bill to Senate Secretariat, seeking to cleanse Pakistan of illegal arms.

Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, Senator Babar Ghauri said that party’s coordination committee will decide whether or not MQM will rejoin the federal cabinet.

The MQM, he said, has conveyed its apprehensions to the government.

“Under the prevailing circumstance, it is necessary to deweaponise the entire country,” he said.

“The government can restore its writ if it wants to do so.”

Overall all political parties and human rights organizations have supported our decision to submit the deweaponisation bill, he said.

On Monday MQM submitted the same bill to National Assembly Secretariat.

Time to de-weaponise Pakistan: Sattar

Sattar says the MQM envisages a complete prohibition
of the illegal manufacture and trade of weapons.

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KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar on Monday said that his party had submitted the draft of a de-weaponisation bill in the National Assembly.

He was talking to the media in Karachi.

Sattar said that the MQM envisaged a complete prohibition of, and the proper implementation of this prohibition, on the illegal manufacture and the illicit trafficking of weapons and arms. He said they wanted to encourage the parliament to respond to their call and also assess what flaws were present in the laws already in the books.

He said they would also present the bill in the Senate and appealed to all parties to support them on the bill, adding that the vision behind the step to submit a bill was to encourage the parliament to play its role in preventing the weaponisation of society.

The MQM leader said the country was facing many problems due to rising crime and violence. He said the greatest factor behind the rising crime and terrorism in the country was the proliferation of weapons, particularly illegal weapons, in the country.