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Attendance Report Lawmakers’ interest in National Assembly Shows Declining Trend 101 lawmakers attend less than half of sittings Attendance remains higher in shorter sessions while lower in longer sessions Average annual attendance the lowest during second parliamentary year FREE AND FAIR ELECTION NETWORK www.fafen.org I www.openparliament.pk Overall Attendance The 14th National Assembly completed its third parliamentary year on May 31, 2016. It held 289 sittings in 32 sessions between June 1, 2013 and May 30, 2016. The attendance record of lawmakers was first made public on the National Assembly website in June 2015 at the outset of third parliamentary year. The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) acquired the attendance record of the Members of the National Assembly (MNA) for the first two parliamentary years through an information request to the National Assembly Secretariat. This report is based on the official attendance record and does not include the attendance of the Joint Sittings of Parliament and sitting held on May 31, 2016. The Assembly held 99 sittings in the first parliamentary year, 92 in the second and 98 in the third year. The highest attendance of MNAs was recorded during the first session of the 14th National Assembly followed by the third and 19th sessions which were single-sitting sessions. The third sitting of the first session witnessed the highest attendance when the election of the Prime Minister took place in the presence of 318 lawmakers. The fourth sitting of 18th session was the least attended with only 87 members were present. The average attendance during each session of the National Assembly is shown in the graph below: Average Attendance in National Assembly's Sessions 350 311 300 291 270 255 250 246 245 240 239 233 235 225 231 221 216 223 214 207 s 206 200 196 203 196 199 200 197 189 196 180 184 186 175 172 159 Member 150 100 50 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Session The annual average attendance of lawmakers Average Attendance in each Parliamentary Year witnessed a downward trend during the second parliamentary year. Each lawmaker, on average, attended 64 sittings during the first parliamentary year, 51 sittings during the second and 59 during the 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year third. Similarly, an average of 222 MNAs attended each sitting during the first parliamentary year, 194 attended each sitting during the second 222 194 208 parliamentary year and 208 attended each sitting during the third parliamentary year. Key Members' Attendance National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq attended 245 sittings during three years while Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi was present in 237 sittings. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attended 39 sittings during three years - nine each in first and third parliamentary year and 21 in second parliamentary year. Leader of the Opposition Syed Khursheed Shah attended 221 sittings. Speaker Deputy Speaker Prime Minister Leader of the Opposition 245 237 39 221 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Ministerial Attendance As many as 26 cabinet members – 17 Federal Ministers and 9 Ministers of State – are Members of the National Assembly. Each Minister, on average, attended 172 sittings during three parliamentary years. Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmad was present during 285 sittings and the most regular minister in the National Assembly. He is the second most regular lawmaker during the past three years. Nine other cabinet members attended more than 200 sittings. Two federal ministers Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi and Ahsan Iqbal attended 80 and 99 sittings, respectively. More than half of the ministers remained absent from as many as 54 sittings while there were only four sittings when all 26 ministers were present. Sheikh Aftab Ahmed Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada Usman Ibrahim Muhammad Barjees Tahir Abdul Qadir Baloch 285 256 227 223 222 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Less than half of the members were present in 38 out of 289 sitting. As many as 101 lawmakers (29%) attended less than half (145) of the sittings. Prominent members including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his nephew Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, parliamentary leaders of PTI Imran Khan, MQM Farooq Sattar, JUI-F Fazl- ur-Rehman and PML Pervaiz Elahi attended less than half of the 289. The following table shows the list of 20 members with lowest attendance: Least Regular Members Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar Imran Khan M. Hamza Shehbaz Sharif Faryal Talpur Muhammad Nawaz Sharif PPPP PTI PML-N PPPP PML-N 9 18 22 26 39 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Ch. Parvez Elahi Ch. Muhammad Asim Nazir Malik Asad Sikandar Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali Roshan Din Junejo PML PML-N PPPP PML-N PPPP 40 42 45 47 48 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Amir Haider Khan Malik Iqbal Mehdi Khan Dr. Fehmida Mirza Dr. M. Farooq Sattar Syed Mustafa Mehmood ANP PML-N PPPP MQM PPPP 51 54 55 56 60 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Reeta Ishwar Muhammad Zain Ellahi Fazal-Ur-Rehman Sardar M. Jafar Khan Leghari Sardar Kamal Khan Bangulzai PML-F IND JUI-F PML-N NP 61 66 67 72 73 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Female Lawmakers’ Attendance There are 70 female lawmakers in the National Assembly – 60 on reserved seats, nine elected and one minority. Nearly 77% women lawmakers attended half or more sittings. Each woman lawmaker, on average, attended more sittings than their male counterparts. A woman lawmaker, on average, attended 70 sittings during the first parliamentary year, 54 in the second year and 67 in the third year. On average, a male lawmaker attended 62, 51 and 57 sittings during these years. Aliya Kamran from JUI-F remained the most regular lawmaker. The average attendance of male and female lawmakers is given in the graph below: 300 250 249 231 212 200 201 194 191 189 186 179 s 179 178 172 175 175 165 168 160 158 155 156 158 150 151 148 150 151 151 140 139 143 145 132 Member 121 100 62 60 58 55 51 54 54 51 54 56 53 50 45 50 50 46 48 46 51 50 45 50 46 48 40 42 37 41 42 40 41 43 39 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Gender Average Female Average Male Average Minority Lawmakers’ Attendance There are ten lawmakers elected on seats reserved for religious minorities. Half of them attended more than 200 sittings during three parliamentary years. Each minority lawmaker, on average, attended 197 sittings which is much higher than overall average of other lawmakers i.e. 168. Aasiya Nasir Khalil George Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani Lal Chand Malhi Ramesh Lal JUI-F PML-N PML-N PTI PPPP 258 252 227 203 201 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Dr. Darshan Sanjay Perwani Isphanyar M. Bhandara Bhawan Das Tariq Christopher Qaiser PML-N MQM PML-N PML-N PML-N 191 184 178 155 124 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Political Parties Attendance Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz PML-N (189 MNAs) Parliamentary Leader Muhammad Nawaz Sharif 39Sittings Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns 62 56 37 MEMBERS 19 7 8 Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+ SITTINGS Most Regular Members 1 2 3 4 5 Sheikh Aftab Ahmed Kiran Haider Begum Tahira Bukhari Sardar Mumtaz Khan Rana Shamim Ahmed Khan 285 284 281 279 270 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian PPPP (46 MNAs) Parliamentary Leader* Makhdoom Amin Fahim (Late) 34Sittings Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns 12 12 9 5 5 MEMBERS 3 Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+ SITTINGS Most Regular Members 1 2 3 4 5 Musarat Rafique Mahesar Shahida Rehmani Abdul Sattar Bachani Nafisa Shah Shamas-un-Nisa 257 257 255 241 227 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings * The lawmaker died on November 21, 2015. The party did not nominate another parliamentary leader. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf PTI (34 MNAs) Parliamentary Leader Imran Khan 18Sittings Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns 15 11 MEMBERS 5 2 1 0 Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+ SITTINGS Most Regular Members 1 2 3 4 5 Siraj Muhammad Khan Salim Rehman Dr. Shireen Mazari Gulzar Khan Ali Muhammad Khan 233 213 211 210 207 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Muttahida Qaumi Movement MQM (24 MNAs) Parliamentary Leader Dr. M. Farooq Sattar 57Sittings Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns 9 7 5 MEMBERS 2 1 0 Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+ SITTINGS Most Regular Members 1 2 3 4 5 M. Muzammil Qureshi Sajid Ahmed Syed Asif Hasnain Shaikh Salahuddin Mehboob Alam 217 216 210 209 207 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) JUI-F (13 MNAs) Parliamentary Leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman 67Sittings Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns 4 3 3 MEMBERS 1 1 0 Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+ SITTINGS Most Regular Members 1 2 3 4 5 Aliya Kamran Naeema Kishwar Khan Aasiya Nasir Shahida Akhtar Ali Muhammad Jamal Ud Din 287 284 258 253 233 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Independents IND (9 MNAs) Parliamentary Leader Dr. Ghazi Gulab Jamal 153Sittings Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns 3 3 2 MEMBERS 1 0 0 Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+ SITTINGS Most Regular Members 1 2 3 4 5 Bismillah Khan Bilal Rehman Shah Jee Gul Afridi Syed Ghazi Gulab Jamal Jamshaid Ahmad Dasti 248 219 210 153 136 Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings Pakistan Muslim League - Functional PML-F (5 MNAs) Parliamentary Leader Pir Syed Saddaruddin Shah 80Sittings Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns 2 2 1 MEMBERS 0 0 0 Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
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