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The violence exterior the Danish embassy here on Monday that killed eight people put the ruling coalition on the defensive over law and order on the opening day of the there National Assembly’s first financial plan session and sparked an resistance walkout despite a government assurance that it had moved quickly to catch the culprits.Law and Parliamentary Affairs cleric Farooq H. Naek said “only six Pakistanis” were kill in the noon attack — while doctors put the toll at eight.

The topic was bring up by member from both side of the house, with the disagreement raising questions about security while the task force was already under threat over sacrilegious cartoons printed in Denmark.The parson told the house that a joint panel of security agencies was investigating the incident with a beginning report due within 24 hours. “Our effort is to track down the people responsible as soon as possible and get them punish according to law.”

The administration, which has been blame most of its troubles on President Pervez Musharraf and the previous government of his loyalists since taking office at the end of March, seem uncomfortable when it came under flak hours after the violence.Initiating the discussion on the bombing through a point of order, former minister Amir Muqam accused the government of letting things go “from bad to worse” and being a “stoppage in every field” before being cut short by the deputy speaker who had his mike switched off.

Abdul Qadir Khanzada of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, which did not join the walkout later, said the violence, together with the prevailing economic uncertainty, could scare foreign investors.He urged the government to improve the state of affairs in discussion with other parties to prevent what he feared could be an “economic tsunami”.Birjees Tahir of the PML-N said there should have been better security for the Danish embassy in view of the threats over the unpleasant caricatures drawn by a Danish cartoonist and in print in Denmark and some other European country.

In the debate on locality government, which was begun during the preceding session in April, veteran PPP parliamentarian Zafar Ali Shah said President Musharraf had introduced the system to strengthen military despotism with its hidden aims including as long as props for a “king’s party”, getting votes for himself in a controversial referendum that elected him president in 2002, weakening political parties, federalising the local government system and pursue a divide-and-rule policy.Sardar Bahadur Sehar of the PML-Q said the system was aimed at providing relief to people at their entry and decentralising resources to benefit local population but evils arose in decentralisation of powers, while absence of the promise region ombudsmen confident bribery.