PESHAWAR : The lack of quorum Wednesday hindered the passage of the KP Commission on the Status of Women Bill, 2016 from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly leaving the Speaker Asad Qaiser with no other option than adjourning the proceedings of the house.
\nKhyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly resumed the proceedings and clause to clause amendments in the draft bill were under discussion when a JUI-F legislator, Malik Riaz stunned the house with taking the floor to divert the attention of the Speaker towards the lack quorum and forcing him for the adjournment of the proceedings of the house for two minutes.
\nAfter resuming the proceedings, the Speaker asked the assembly staff for count and found only 21 members in the house out of the total 124 members, which was followed by the announcement of the adjournment of the house proceedings till 3:00 P.M of Friday.
\nEarlier, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prohibition of Tobacco and Protection of Non-Smokers Health Bill, 2016 moved by Senior Minister for Health, Shahram Khan Tarakai for consideration was referred to the Select Committee of the house for conducting detail deliberations on it before its passage from the house.
\nMeanwhile, the Speaker also took exception to consecutive absence of the ministers and delay in the return of the replies of the questions submitted by the elected public representatives.
\nThough the agenda for the question-hour of the house for the day was comprised of questions regarding the departments of Energy & Power, Higher Education, Archives, Libraries and Elementary & Secondary Education, but only question regarding the Energy and Power Department was included in the agenda and other questions were deferred on the request of the concerned departments.
\nFirst the issue was raised by Mufti Said Janan of JUI-F, who complained of the inclusion of only question on the agenda of the house and exclusion of the questions of other members.
\nFakhar-e-Azam Wazir of PPP expressed while expressing concern over the attitude of the departments termed it a joke with the house and asked the speaker for giving ruling in this regard.
\nThe Speaker asked Advisor to CM on Higher Education to clarify situation about his department to which he said that he was ready for replying the questions. But, due to some unknown reasons the department had called for putting them pending. He assured the house that all those universities, which are avoiding answer the questions will face actions.
\nSenior Minister Inayatullah Khan also agreed with the concerns of both Mufti Said Janan and Fakhar-e-Azam Wazir and said that the house is the custodian of the rights of 20 million population of the province. He said that he will bring the matter in the notice of the chief minister for issuing directives to the Chief Secretary in this regard.
\nThe Senior Minister also proposed to the Speaker for convening a meeting of all administrative secretaries to express collective concern with them. Otherwise, he said the matter will go the standing committee on the privileges, whose recommendations will be sent to government for implementation.
\nThe Opposition Leader, Maulana Lutf-ur-Rehman said that today the treasury benches themselves are complaining against the attitude of bureaucracy, saying that the opposition have already complaining about the absence of the ministers from the house. He said that the opposition had always participated in the legislation and giving suggestions and proposals to the government in national interest. But, most of the members are lacking required information regarding them.
\nThe Speaker in his ruling over the matter issued intimation to the Chief Secretary for taking disciplinary action against the administrative secretary concerned within a period of ten-days. Otherwise, the Chief Secretary himself will face privilege motion proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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