December 20, 2008	Saturday	Zilhaj 21, 1429

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-N submitted on Friday a privilege motion in the National Assembly against Justice Zawwar Hussain Jaffery of the Supreme Court for staying the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Education from probing into the issue of additional marks given to a daughter of Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar.

The motion, submitted by the committee’s chairman, Abid Sher Ali, and PML-N legislator Mohammad Hanif Abbasi, said that parliament was the supreme body and the judge had no right to stay the probe and summon the committee chairman.

It said that a decision of the three-member SC bench to dismiss the stay order on Friday had proved that Justice Jaffery’s decision was wrong. Commenting on a controversy sparked by distribution of a leaflet about alleged irregular migration of a daughter of PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif to King Edward Medical College, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that no paper or document could be distributed on the floor of the house without permission of the speaker.

“Members can raise issues on adjournment motions or call-attention notices, but nobody can raise issues by distributing papers like this,” he said, adding that he had just received the pamphlet. MNAs Shahnaz Sheikh and Hanif Abbasi had raised the issue.

Meanwhile, the House was informed that the government had launched four power projects since July to generate 382MW of electricity. These include Malakand hydel power project, DHA Cogen in Karachi, Sepcol and captive power plants.—Agencies