Body formed to look into appointments

Published February 20, 2003

MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 19: The government on Wednesday appointed a three-member house committee to look into the appointments made allegedly against rules or quota in the AJK Hydro Electric Board.

The opposition members had staged a walkout on Tuesday after the Speaker, Sardar Siab Khalid, had refused to accept their demand for constitution of a house committee in this regard and had ruled that an already established committee, headed by the law minister and comprising two secretaries, would carry out the job.

Before the beginning of the session on Wednesday, law minister Raja Nisar Ahmed Khan, finance minister Shah Ghulam Qadir and ruling party MLA Sardar Tahir Anwar visited the opposition chamber and urged the opposition legislators to end their boycott of the proceedings.

However, the opposition members made it clear that unless the Tuesday’s ruling by the speaker was withdrawn and a house committee was constituted, they would not participate in the assembly proceedings.

Later, in the middle of the proceedings, the speaker announced the formation of a three-member committee, comprising Raja Nisar Ahmed, Sardar Tahir Anwar and Chaudhry Abdul Majeed.

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