Pak Parliament condemns Afzal Guru's hanging by India, says give body to kin

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Pak Parliament condemns Afzal Guru's hanging by India, says give body to kin
Pakistan's parliament today passed a resolution condemning the hanging of Afzal Guru and demanded the return of his body to his family. Two days before it completes its five-year term, the National Assembly or lower house of parliament passed the resolution moved by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who heads a special parliamentary panel on Kashmir. Besides condemning the hanging of Guru, 2001 Parliament attack convict, the resolution expressed concern at the situation created in Jammu and Kashmir by the execution. The House called for Guru's body to be handed over to his family. Guru was hanged and buried within Tihar Jail in Delhi in February. His execution triggered protests in Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan-based terror groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed have vowed to take revenge for the hanging. The parliamentary resolution further said the international community should not remain as silent spectators in efforts to find a solution to the Kashmir dispute. It said steps should be taken to implement the United Nations Security Council's resolutions on the Kashmir issue. The resolution called for an end to alleged killings in Jammu and Kashmir and the removal of the army from towns and cities of the Kashmir Valley. It further said all prisoners should be freed, "black laws" repealed and curfew withdrawn from the region.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/pak-parliament-condemns-afzal-gurus-hanging-by-india-says-give-body-to-kin/1088140/

NB: South Asian parliaments should all meddle in each others sovereign domain. In Pakistan, the government has estimated that 4,000 deaths of women and men between 1998 and 2003 were linked to honor killings. Pakistan's Senate has recently refused to condemn such killings Pakistan's Senate has recently shown its tolerance of 'honour' killings via its refusal to sign a resolution condemning such killings and the refusal by the Government of Pakistan to condemn such crimes: 
http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/Honour_crimes

Indian MP's should ask the Pak parliament to condemn honour killings immediately
The Pak parliament should also be asked to repeal the infamous Hudood ordinance, under which rape victims end up being charged with adultery:
Hudood Ordinances- The Crime And Punishment For Zina
http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/apro/aproweb.nsf/pages/svaw_hudoo

The Constitution of Pakistan should be amended to remove the Objectives Resolution of 1949, wherein “sovereignty over the entire universe belongs to Allah Almighty alone and the authority which He has delegated to the State of Pakistan”; because by implication a small number of earthly beings have seemingly placed upon Allah the responsibility of having delegated authority to all sorts of infidels and evil people as well.. 
http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/annex_objres.html

The ISI should be charged with the murder of Saleem Shahzad in May 2011
http://www.rferl.org/content/profile_of_pakistani_journalist_syed_saleem_shahzad/24212611.html

The Pak parliament should also be asked to release Asia Bibi, a working class woman and  mother, cruelly convicted to death for blasphemy, rotting in her cell for 2 years now: http://www.fides.org/en/news/30621?idnews=30621&lan=eng#.UUH0p9a7nqE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Bibi 

 The Pak parliament should take immediate steps to cease the state-enabled massacre of Shias: Is Shia genocide an adequate term to describe the plight of Pakistan’s Shia Muslims? http://criticalppp.com/archives/132492

 It should abrogate the section in the Pakistan constitution declaring Ahmadis non-Muslims: Tracing hate - the trajectory of anti-Ahmadi politics in Pakistan
http://dilipsimeon.blogspot.in/2012/12/nadeem-paracha-tracing-hate.html

The Pakistan parliament should also negotiate with the Bangladesh government to arrive at a more truthful assessment of the numbers killed by its Army in East Pakistan in 1971, since the Hamoodur Rahman Report was only a temporary and interim document:
http://www.bangla2000.com/bangladesh/Independence-War/Report-Hamoodur-Rahman/cabinet-note.shtm
http://www.bangla2000.com/bangladesh/Independence-War/Report-Hamoodur-Rahman/default.shtm

 The Bangladesh Parliament & civil society should invite writer Taslima Nasrin back to her homeland, from where she was unjustly hounded out by pressure from the same Islamist fascists whose leaders are being tried for war crimes in 1970-71.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taslima_Nasrin
It is also a shame that she was hounded out of Kolkata in 2007 by the Left Front government after rampant hooliganism by communalists
http://www.sabrang.com/news/2007/23nov07.htm

The Indian Parliament should be asked why, when it can convene in joint session to pass draconian security legislation, or make assurances to Anna Hazare, it can't pass a motion of condolence for all the thousands of Indian citizens killed in communal violence and massacres. Article 21 of the Constitution guarantees the right to life and liberty that can be  withdrawn only be due process of law. This right has been shamefully denied to thousands of Indians over the decades. The State has thus grossly abused its authority and violated its fundamental Statute. Do our MP's have the courage even to recognise this abysmal failure?

There are many other such long-standing issues that can and should be raised & discussed in all parliaments, such as the validity of the Radcliffe Award, that allowed India to be artificially divided by an act of a colonial parliament (and decreed by a British monarch) to the great detriment of all inhabitants of colonial India, and which could not be valid since it did not have the democratic authorisation of the people whose interests were affected.

These and all matters pertaining to human rights violations, massacres, coup's d'etat, assassinations, invasions, terrorist attacks, blasphemy laws, nuclear weapons, hateful contents of educational textbooks, free travel across frontiers, etc etc should be taken up by all parliaments in South Asia without any consideration of sanctity of borders. Lets see whether the MP's of various nations have the courage (and intelligence) for an open debate.

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