QUETTA, May 27: Members of provincial assembly adopted several resolutions here on Friday. One of the resolutions demanded that the federal government regularized daily wage workers hailing from Balochistan in the Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Limited.

The house during its proceedings, which was chaired by Speaker Jamal Shah Kakar, admitted joint adjournment motion of Mir Akbar Mengal and Akhtar Hussain Lango of the BNP-Mengal about arrest of activists of the Baloch Students Organization for general discussion on June 2.

While passing the resolution urging the government to recruit Loralai youths, the house also accepted an amendment tabled by Abdur Rahim Ziaratwal that services of daily-wage employees in the Balochistan PTCL should be regularized. The house approved the resolution of Mr Ziartwal demanding that the federal government should provide funds for flood protection to Balochistan on the basis of area and not of population.

The resolution of Akhtar Hussain Lango urged the federal government that the quota of Balochistan in the federal services should be strictly implemented, and the engineers of the province who had been recruited on contract basis during the last nine years in the National Highway Authority should be regularized.

Shah Zaman Rind’s resolution urged the government that proceedings of Balochistan Assembly should be telecast to promote democracy.

During the general debate on the adjournment motion of the opposition members on non-provision of employment to qualified jobless engineers and agriculture graduates, the speakers regretted that the provincial government had not taken concrete steps to resolve this issue. Ex-chief minister Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali and others participated in the discussion. They pointed out that qualified youths of Balochistan had been wandering for jobs for the last several years, but the government had failed to create jobs for them.

The speaker allowed the motion to be turned into a resolution when the house unanimously accepted the proposal demanding that the government provided jobs to the unemployed youths. The session was adjourned till Monday.