JUI-F flays condemnation resolution against party member
Abdul Hakeem Mohmand
PESHAWAR: The opposition lawmaker in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday expressed grave concerns over the appointments made in the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and termed the requirements illegal and gross violation of the procedures.
The Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) female lawmaker, Rehana Ismail, put a question from the concerned department, asking the details of recruitment in BRT saying, that she was not satisfied by the answers of her questions.
Member of Provincial Assembly, Rehana Ismail raised serious objections over the recruitment process, adding that residents of provincial capital were kept outside from induction process in BRT.
KP’s Transport Minister, Shah Mohammad, responding to the question said that all matters pertaining to induction into BRT were handed over to a private company.
Supporting the stance of his colleague, Finance Minister, Taimur Saleem Jhagra, who is considered to be the most influential minister of Chief Minister Mahmood Khan’s cabinet, as per need of the department vacant technical posts could be filled from anywhere on merit base.
In order to sort out the issue, the question from the opposition bench was referred to concerned standing committee of the house.
Defending his party member’s statement to bomb the KP Assembly, the JUI-F parliamentary leader, Maulna Lutfur Rehman, said that for first time in the history of Parliament, a resolution condemning its own member was tabled.
He said when PTV and Parliament were attacked; no one tabled any condemnation resolution.
On August 25 during the assembly session, the JUI-F lawmaker, Issam Ud Din had demanded that the area should be cleared of landmines and threatened that if his demand was not met, he would bomb the provincial assembly.
Condemning to bring a resolution in the house against JUI-F member, Maulana Lutfu Rehman said that his party member spoke it out of emotions that day, “When the words of the lawmaker were expunged from the proceedings, then why the resolution was tabled?” he questioned, even the Assembly rules for resolution were not suspended. “The same feeling of deprivation has divided the country into two states” he added.
On a call of attention notice, the MMA assembly member, Rehana Ismail also pointed out the closure of OPD service at all major government hospitals due to corona virus, saying that due to the closure, patients are badly suffered. She said that people were being forced to sell household goods and seek treatment from private hospitals.
The Heath and Finance minister, Timur Saleem Jhagra, replied that all hospitals had been ordered to open OPDs with SOPs, saying that the cases of Corona epidemic had also come down, things are getting back to normal position.
