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| November 19, 2005 | Saturday | Shawwal 16, 1426 |
PU housing society issue echoes in PA
LAHORE, Nov 18: The Punjab University housing society issue reverberated in the Punjab Assembly on Friday when Sheikh Allauddin of the treasury took the flour on an adjournment motion and told the house that “the VC has got the colony registered in his name.” Quoting a news item, he said the incumbent VC had got the housing colony registered under the Companies Act and owned 91 per cent of the shares. The VC could do neither under the law, he contended.
The law minister assured the MPA that the matter would be taken up during the next sitting, as all his questions had been sent to the Housing and Cooperative Department. For further information, he said, the case was also being sent to the Higher Education Commission.
However, it did not satisfy the MP who kept on insisting that it was sheer violation of rules and the Punjab government must take up the issue. The speaker pended the case till the arrival of official response.
Ms Azma Zahid Bokhari of the PPP also took the flour to claim that people were constructing even 12-storey plazas in the Shah Alam market in violation of rules. She demanded constitution of a committee to look into the affair.
The housing department parliamentary secretary, however, denied any such construction which provoked Ms Bokhari to mention the name of Haji Hanif who, she said, was building a plaza there.
The secretary kept denying so with the claim that no one could build a plaza more than 70 feet in the market and the government was ensuring strict compliance in this regard. Ms Bokhari asked the speaker to form a committee and let it inquire the matter, which the speaker denied.
PRIVILEGE MOTIONS: Waris Kahloon from Khushab, who had been agitating his motion about the killing of six people by police in his area in the last many weeks, saw his motion being referred to the privilege committee. The law minister did not oppose the matter going to the committee.
Another privilege motion by Mehr Ishtiaq also went to the house committee. Mr Mehr had contended that the Sabzazar police SHO had insulted him when he tried to inquire about illegal detention of an innocent person. The SHO hoodwinked him and the person was, later, recovered by a court bailiff.
The law minister admitted the allegations after which the speaker handed over the motion to the house committee.
In response to a privilege motion by Pir Syed Rafiuddin, the law minister promised to bring the ‘culprit’ to the MPA for an apology. The Pir had told the house that the irrigation Xen of his area had refused to talk to him for many days, leave alone solving the problem.
The speaker advised the MPAs to show large-heartedness and must not take every minor incident as breach of privilege. He, however, asked the parliamentary secretary to ensure that the Xen sought an apology from the MPA.
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