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| 18 November 2004 | Thursday | 05 Shawwal 1425 |
Heated debate likely on law, order
KARACHI, Nov 17: The whole spectrum of law and order is likely to come under a heated debate between the treasury and opposition benches at the Sindh Assembly session that begins on Thursday.
Leader of the opposition Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has already got included in the order of the day his adjournment motion pertaining to the assassination of respected scholar Mufti Jamil Ahmed Khan.
If the house grants leave with one-fifth of the members present, the motion may be take up as the last item for a two hour discussion within three days after the granting the leave and fixing of its turn by the chair.
The 'question hour' restricted to the food and agriculture department is one of the other items on the agenda of the session, summoned by Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad to meet at 5pm on Thursday.
Among the other items is the ordinance pertaining to the establishment of the Indus Institute of Higher Education which will be followed by the introduction of bill no.7 that would amend the Sindh Civil Servants Act 1973.
Bill no.5 and bill no.8 will also be presented before the members for consideration. The bill no.5 pertains to an amendment to the Private Universities and Institutions Act whereas the bill no.8 seeks promotion and protection of consumers' interests.
Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has summoned a meeting of his coalition's parliamentary party at 12 noon at the CM's House on Thursday to chalk out the treasury's strategy for the session. The meeting will be presided over by Deputy Speaker Rahila Tiwana in the absence of Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah, who is currently on a visit to India.
The opposition parliamentary group, representing various opposition parties, has also scheduled its meeting before the session in the chamber of the opposition leader Mr Khuhro at 2pm. Besides finalizing its strategy for the session, the group would also discuss the summoning of the session by the governor on his own. The opposition maintains that it should have been a requisition session.
The requisition had already been filed by the PPP-Parliamentarians through an application bearing signatures of 43 members who included Maulana Omar Sadiq and other MMA MPAs.
The PPP-P had also submitted three bills for the session. One of them related to the protection of rights of fisher folk, another one to unemployment and the third one to the welfare of craftsmen and artisans.
The adjournment motions and resolutions submitted by the MMA pertain to the government's recruitment policy, failure of law-enforcement agencies in arresting killers of Mufti Mohammad Jamil and Maulana Nazeer Ahmed Taunsvi, transferring of fishing contracts from the fishermen operating in Thatta and Badin coastal areas to Rangers, and abolition of the self-financing scheme in professional and technical institutions as well as increasing merit seats in these institutions.
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