ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain on Wednesday impressed upon the representatives of parliamentary parties to help run the house with understanding and cooperation.

The speaker while presiding over the meeting of house business advisory committee of the lower house of parliament at his assembly chamber asked the opposition to use other methods of protest so that the functioning of the house is not disrupted.

However, the representatives of the opposition in the committee recorded their extreme resentment over the attitude of the government and the haste with which the house was summoned.

Talking to newsmen after advisory committee meeting, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed and Liaqat Baloch of MMA said that they had protested against what they termed the ‘one-sided’ summoning of the house.

Hafiz Hussain said, he told the speaker in the meeting that the opposition would have given its own agenda and would have assured smooth proceedings in the house had it been allowed to requisition the house”.

He further said that “we have been assured by the speaker that the opposition’s agenda would be accommodated in Thursday’s advisory committee meeting and if it was done then we will reconsider our protest”.

Mr Baloch said if the government was serious about running the house smoothly then it should have consulted the opposition before summoning the session.

Among others who attended the advisory committee meeting included, deputy speaker Sardar Mohammad Yaqub Khan, Abdul Sattar Laleka, Mohammad Raza Hayat Harraj (ministers), Chaudhry Shujaat (PML-Q), Liaqat Baloch, (MMA), Kunwar Khalid Yunus (MQM), Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada (NA), Hafiz Hussain Ahmed (MMA) and Mohammad Pervaiz Malik (PML-N).