ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly over the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
The motion submitted by PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Dr Arif Alvi, Asad Umar, Shafqat Mehmood demanded that the assembly should immediately raise the issue of persecution of Rohingya Muslims. The PTI leaders also stated that houses have been torched in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s Rakhine region.
It said that due to the sensitivity of the issue, a national policy on Rohingya crisis must be developed after an extensive discussion in the Lower House of Parliament.
Pti filing adjourment motion in national assembly and resolution in sind assembly about the genocide of rogingya muslims in myanmar.
— Asad Umar (@Asad_Umar) September 4, 2017
The development comes a day after Pakistan’s Foreign Office urged the Myanmar government to investigate reports of Rohignyas’ mass murders.
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have so far fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted in Myanmar in August, pressuring scarce resources of aid agencies and communities already helping hundreds of thousands of refugees from previous spasms of violence in the Buddhist-majority nation.
The ensuing clashes and a major military counter-offensive have killed at least 400 people.
Rights monitors and Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh say a campaign of arson and killings by the Myanmar army aims to force them out.
The treatment of Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s roughly 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya is the biggest challenge facing leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accused by Western critics of not speaking out for the minority that has long complained of persecution.
