Daily Tuesday January 28, 2014 Vol: FN-002/14, Issue NO. 18 FROM FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS TO AN OPEN AND EFFECTIVE PARLIAMENT The Senate Standing Committee on Defence Production and The National Assembly Special Committee on Kashmir Education, Training & Standards in Higher Education are meeting and Standing Committee on National Health Services, today (Tuesday) at Parliament House. Regulations & Coordination Areas are meeting today (Tuesday) at Parliament House. Parliamentary Senate Information Question Hour NA meets sans briefed on 18th Amendment Prime Minister PPPP, PML-N lock foreign Tariq Iqbal particular in attending the Na- tional Assembly sessions and ISLAMABAD: The National As- taking the House into confi- remittances sembly Monday debated the de- dence on all issues/challenges teriorated law and order follow- Our Correspondent faced by the country. Many ing deadly terrorist attacks on observers believe that the horns over Senate QHrs ISLAMABAD: The Senate the personnel of paramilitary agenda of the House remained had been informed about forces and civilians in different President Asif Ali Zardari Salahudin Safdar incomplete due to the absence the steps being taken by parts of the country, including during his address to the ISLAMABAD: The Question Hours in the Upper House of of Prime Minister, as most of the government to increase Rawalpindi and Bannu, during Joint Session of the Parlia- Parliament witnessed rowdy scenes during the centennial ses- the ministers also take undue foreign remittances and the first month of New Year. ment on March 28, 2009 sion, as the opposition party PPPP and the government min- advantage of such a situation. measures proposed to bal- Prime Minister Nawaz asked the Speaker National isters often locked horns over the supplementary questions. Meanwhile, the Lower ance the current account of Sharif was expected to attend Assembly to form a Com- The House held five Question Hours during the eight-sit- House started debate on the Pakistan in future. the first sitting of the eighth mittee of both Houses for ting long session while three other sittings were private mem- deteriorating law and order Minister of Finance Ishaq session of the National Assem- the purpose of proposing ber days. There were 93 Starred and six Unstarred Questions following bomb attacks on pil- bly but he could not turn up amendments in the Consti- included in the agenda of the House. However, only a third of Dar, in his written reply to grims in Mastung, killing of se- despite criticism from the op- tution in the light of Charter the Starred Questions could be taken up while 63% (58) were a question submitted by curity personnel in Rawalpindi position benches. of Democracy (COD). After not answered orally. There were six questions which were not PPPP legislator Saleem and Bannu, deadly attacks The opposition benches, consultation with the leader- answered by the relevant ministers. Mandviwalla, informed the on polio vaccination teams in however, ended their boycott ship of all political parties in There were two walkouts during the session against the im- House that the PML-N gov- Karachi and Peshawar and of the proceedings against the the Parliament, Speaker Na- proper replies to the questions. Meanwhile, there were more ernment has taken certain the assassination of SP CID “unsatisfactory remarks” of tional Assembly announced than one instances of dissatisfaction expressed by senators steps to increase the inflow Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam in Interior Minister Chaudhry Ni- the Constitutional Reforms over the ministerial replies. of remittances. As the first a suicide attack in Karachi. sar Ali Khan, arguing that the Committee (CRC) on April Once in the second last sitting of the session, Leader of the measure, it has introduced Opposition Leader in the challenges confronted by the 29, 2009. Opposition Aitzaz Ahsan criticized the ministers when Min- TT Charges Scheme under National Assembly Syed Khur- country should be discussed After the marathon consul- ister of State for Interior Balighur Rehman could not satisfy sheed Shah condemned the which it pays these charges on the floor of the House. They tation in 77 meetings, CRC Senator Talha Mehmood over a question. continued absence of Prime to commercial banks on ac- observed token walkout from under the Chairmanship of On a question of Senator Surriya Ameeruddin about the Minister from the House. He count of remittances. the House against the prime Senator Raza Rabbani pre- police officers punished for poor performance, Senator Talha even the Leader of the House has admitted that ministers argued that the Prime Minis- The other step is the Pa- minister’s continued absence sented report of the Com- sought the details of why two police officials were sentenced came to the House unprepared. However, Raja Zafar refused to ter attended the PML-N par- kistan Remittance Initia- and the government’s apathy to mittee on 18th Amendment different punishments for the same reason. However, the re- have given such a statement. He also pointed out the absence liamentary party meeting but tive (PRI) PRI which is a take the House into confidence in the Constitution to the quired details could not be provided to the Senate that an- of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan from the House. could not come to the House joint venture of Ministry over deteriorating law and or- Speaker National Assembly gered the Leader of the Opposition who protested and blamed Following the argument, the opposition walked out from the which gives the impression that of Finance, State Bank of der in the country. on March 31, 2010. The the ministers for not coming to the House well prepared. House. Later the Chair directed Senator Pervaiz Rasheed to he was the premier of only one Pakistan (SBP) and Minis- According to the data pro- historic 18th Constitutional The Leader of the Opposition narrated his days of being call the opposition back. party and not of the nation. try of Overseas Pakistanis vided by the observers of Free Amendment was presented minister and preparing for the questions to be asked by par- As many as 26 government ministries and departments PTI leader Shah Mahmood launched with the objective and Fair Election Network and passed by the National liamentarians. “I used to see the files of questions till late at were asked to answer the queries by senators. Among them, Qureshi said the government (FAFEN), the Prime Minister Assembly on April 8, 2010 night before the Rota day and used to carry details of any issue nineteen questions were directed to the Ministry of Water & of facilitating, supporting, has failed to control terrorism has attended only seven sit- and Senate on April 15, 2010 to answer the supplementary questions,” he noted. Power while 12 to Interior & Narcotics Control and Ministry of faster, cheaper, convenient in the country. He said several tings out of total 50 sittings respectively. After the assent Senator Aitzaz accused the ministers of coming to the Finance. Additionally, the members asked 105 supplementary and efficient flow of remit- people have lost their lives in after assuming power in June, of the President on April 19, House just to give lectures on the merit policy of Premier questions from the ministers. tances. bomb attacks on pilgrims’ bus 2013. 2010, 18th Amendment be- Sharif, instead of giving answers to legislators, he stated. He Almost half of the questions (54) were asked by senators Under the said plan, the in Mastung, suicide attack on It is to be noted that despite came part of the Constitution warned that if such a situation arose again, the entire opposi- belonging to PPPP, the biggest party in the Senate, which has minister stated the network security forces personnel in having coalition government, of the Islamic Republic of tion would boycott the Senate proceedings and set up a mock the strength of 39. The JUI-F senators asked 12 questions, of banks to deal with remit- Rawalpindi and Bannu, but the the former Prime Minister Pakistan. session outside the Parliament. ANP and MQM ten each, independent senators six, PkMAP tances has increased from government did nothing to ar- Yousaf Raza Gillani was more Referring to Raja Zafarul Haq, the Opposition Leader said five, BNP-A two while PML and PML-N one question each. five to twenty-two. rest the killers. Punjab Laws Online Balochistan PA passes bill to Profile Senators in row over power issues Sikandar Hayat Bosan billion for the said purpose was presiding over the sitting, Federal Minister for Amina Imtiaz and had previously projected intervened and repeated the introduce mother tongue in schools ISLAMABAD: The government National Food Security and six billion in disbursements and opposition senators got question of Ms Imam, asking Research for water reservoirs. Usman Asad The mover of the bill while the province at all levels. tangled up in a heated discus- for details of the said disburse- introducing the bill stated that To get education in moth- She said in an earlier an- ments, to which the minister The Law Department, Gov- ISLAMABAD: In a move to see sion over a question directed Articles 251(3) of the Consti- er tongue is a universally swer to the same question on gave the same reply. An ANP ernment of the Punjab, pub- the next generation getting to the Ministry of Water and tution of Pakistan provides acknowledged right of every November 6, the ministry had senator from KP also put an- lished the collection of laws education in its real sense, Power regarding funds set that without any prejudice child supported by the UN given contradicting figures other supplementary question of Punjab Government as the Balochistan Assembly has aside for new dams, during to the status of national lan- Charter.