ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday held a meeting with a delegation of coalition partner Balochistan National Party (BNP), assuring them to bring missing persons bill to the floor of NA.
As per details, meeting of three-member delegation of Balochistan National Party (BNP) with the prime minister held yesterday.
“We told the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that we will not withdraw from the issues of enforced disappearances,” a BNP leader said. “We talked the prime minister to bring a bill on enforced disappearances in the National Assembly,” he added.
Apart of State Minister Muhammad Hashim Notezai, BNP Senator Muhammad Qasim also attended the meeting.
Notezai, state minister for energy in the federal cabinet had vowed to bring a legislation bill over the missing persons issue in the National Assembly.
“We will not withdraw from the issues of Balochistan and the matter of the missing persons,” he said.
BNP leader further said “Prime Minister assured us introduction of the bill in the assembly after mutual consultation.”
“We will bring the bill in the National Assembly and will see, who is with us and who is not,” he said. ” We will be free to decide if the bill on enforced disappearances not supported,” BNP leader said.
