ISLAMABAD - PML-Q has submitted an adjournment motion in the National Assembly secretariat to discuss the deal of Voice of America with Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation to extend its media propaganda network into Pakistan. VOA was already running its media propaganda in Afghanistan to mould the public opinion in their favour and now they were about to step in here with the aim to dilute the growing public resentment against them. PML-Q leaders including MNA Faisal Saleh Hayat, MNA Marvi Memon, MNA Amir Muqam, MNA Bushra Rehman and MNA Hamayaun Saifullah have submitted this motion. We beg to move that this house be adjourned to discuss an issue of urgent public national importance: the clandestine deal signed by government of Pakistan with VOA to expand US propaganda from Afghanistan to Pakistan, stated in Adjournment Motion. Central leader of PML-Q Marvi Memon said that whenever her party moves a motion to discuss any issue related to US and US activities in Pakistan, it is immediately dismissed. However, she said that her party would continue to raise issues that were against national interest. The story of the deal between VOA and PBC was published in this newspaper on Monday (Oct 27) after that PML-Q submitted the adjournment motion. Meanwhile the spokesman of PBC has said that Voice of Americas programmes carried over PBC network are operational under a strict regime of check and balance, monitoring and editorial guidelines to safeguard the national interests of the country. He termed the cooperation between PBC and VOA as professional and technical one and said that it was in accordance with Pakistani law and rules of business. He said that the cooperation between PBC and VOA was decade old, which included programmes and staff exchange. In 2004, PBC carried VOA programming on its FM network, spokesman said. This is beside the fact that VOA programming beams the entire Pakistan for 12 hours every day with the help of two powerful transmitters. If all these have not hurt our national interests, how a soft programme, running under Pakistan law will hurt us, the spokesman said.