LAHORE The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution asking the federal government to desist from allowing transit route - from the Wagah border to the Torkham border - for facilitating the Indian traders reaching the markets of Afghanistan and other countries, and this must be done until the neighbouring country resolves the Kashmir issue and releases water in the Pakistani rivers. This resolution was moved by Pakistan Muslim League-Q (forward bloc) member Sheikh Allaudin. In the motion, he had demanded the Punjab Assembly to ask the Centre for barring India having transit trade facility from Wagah to Tork-ham until Indian resolve the Kashmir issue according to the United Nations resolution, and release water to the Pakistani rivers as per the agreed formula. Moreover, he also demanded banning of the Indian TV channels on cable in Pakistan. India is bent upon destroying Pakistan, and has stooped itself to the worst enmity by decreasing share of water to 34 per cent, a fact which has been acknowledged by the Pakistani government as well, he said, adding that the Indian channels were causing obscenity, and aimed at making the nation subservient to India by having adverse effects upon the Pakistani youth. He further asked the government for directing the cable operators to block relaying of the Indian channels, as the operators had been doing so in connivance with the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA). Initially, members from both sides of the political divide, that is, the treasury and the opposition started opposing the motion and expressed their serious reservations. Opposition Leader Ch Zaheer-ud-Din Khan asserted that that if the government blocked the transit trade channel, it would adversely affect the Pak-Afghan relations. Trade doors should not be closed on Afghanistan since it will be equivalent to strangulating the Afghan brothers, he maintained. Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan suggested Sheikh Allaudin to delete expression 'transit trade facility to India from Wagah to Afghanistan from the resolution. However, Treasury members Waris Kalloo, Syed Hassan Murtaza, Mian Naseer Ahmed and Tayyaba Zameer supported the resolution. On the other hand, Treasury members Dr Ashraf Chohan and Rana Ijaz Ahmed opposed the motion while pointing out that Pakistan, under UN Charter, could not block the transit trade facility to any land-locked country. To them, the resolution was technically wrong. They were of the view that India was already having transit trade facility from Karachi to Afghanistan, and it would not be pragmatic asking the Centre to stop Indian trade facility to Afghanistan through the Wagah border, as the trade was already continuing from Karachi to Torkham. To them, it was futile passing the resolution since the matter related to the federal government. They were also of considered that nothing would come out tangible by banning the Indian channels since the satellite and internet facilities were also available to viewers, and no channel of any country could be blocked. Nevertheless, Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan endorsed Sheikh Allaudins point of view, but on seeing the House divided, he put the resolution to voting, which was unanimously passed by the members. Earlier, a PML-Q parliamentarian Ch Sher Ali protested against Sheikh Allaudin for repeating derogatory remarks of the Indian government against the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah when the Quaid had demanded transit route to the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). On this, the Deputy Speaker expunged the remarks. On Tuesday - the Private-Members day - the Punjab Assembly also passed a resolution asking the Punjab government for allotting free-of-cost five and three marla plots to the deserving people and extending soft loans to them for constructing the houses. This resolution was moved by Deputy Opposition leader Muhammad Yar Hiraj. Another resolution was moved by Nasim Lodhi of the PML-Q (forward bloc). The motion had requested the federal government for making the National Cadet Course (NCC) training mandatory for students. The House approved it unanimously.