ISLAMABAD: National Assembly (NA) has approved demand for grants
amounting to Rs more than 505 billion in respect of defence ministry
with majority vote.
35 cut motions were tabled by opposition
about 8 demand for grants pertaining to defence ministry which were
rejected by the house.
Opening debate over cut motions, PML-N
legislator Sardar Mehtab Abbasi said people of the country will
tolerate non availability of medicines in hospitals and lack of
facilities in educational institutions so that our national defence
becomes impregnable .
Military dictator Pervez Musharraf pushed
the country into so called war against terrorism and diverted army from
its real obligations. “We have lifted thousands of dead bodies in the
wake of drone attacks due to ill conceived national security policies,
he remarked. Attack on Mehran base had terribly shaken capabilities of
the entire Navy, he added.
Nation wants allocation made for defence be spent honestly, he stressed.
Land
has been allotted for construction of GHQ in Islamabad, he held.
Government should do away with this project as it would change civil
structure of Islamabad, he demanded.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi of PML-N said defence budget be fortified, as it would strengthen defence service.
Ahsan
Iqbal said whatever collection is being made through taxes by
government is being spent on defence and repayment of debt. Some people
used strategic institutions, he said adding time has come these
elements be exposed. ISI is interfering in the national politics, he
alleged. Online
