ISLAMABAD: Chairmen of 11 standing committees of the National Assembly were elected on Tuesday by members of the committees.

The chairmanship of six committees was clinched by the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf while the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz got chairmanship of three committees and Pakistan Peoples Party two committees.

PTI’s Mujahid Ali was elected chairman of the Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs; Munazza Hasan, chairperson of the Standing Committee on Climate Change; Faizullah, chairman of the Committee on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs; Amjad Ali Khan, chairman of the Committee on Defence; Malik Muhammad Amir Dogar, the head of the Standing Committee on Government Assurances; and Rana Mohammad Qasim, the chairman of Rules of Procedure and Privileges.

PML-N’s Rao Mohammad Ajmal Khan was elected the chairman of Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research; Rana Shamim Ahmed Khan the chairman of the Standing Committee on Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan and Sheikh Fayyazuddin, the chairman of Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development.

PPP’s Syed Naveed Qamar became the chairman of the Standing Committee on Commerce and Textile and Syed Mustafa Mahmud the chairman of the Standing Committee on Privatisation.

Published in Dawn, February 13th, 2019