QUETTA, April 15: Speaker Jamal Shah Kakar on Saturday constituted a four-member committee to visit Nasirabad and Jaffarabad district and review the condition of people who had been displaced from Dera Bugti because of the fighting between security forces and tribesmen.

Mr Kakar chaired the session and nominated provincial ministers Mir Abdur Rehman Jamali and Mir Ghafoor Lehri besides opposition members Kachkol Ali and Mir Saleem Khoso for the committee.

Opposition leader Mr Kachkol had said that thousands of people had migrated to Nasirabad and Jaffarabad since hostilities began on Dec 17, 2005 in Dera Bugti.

He said that these people had been living in miserable conditions as the government had not done anything to support them by way of providing them essential items.

He called for the formation of a committee, comprising assembly members and journalists, to visit the area to ascertain the factual position.

The speaker disposed a joint adjournment motion moved by opposition members on the besieging of Sardar Mengal’s House in Karachi and the Sindh government’s move to detain two Balochistan MPAs. He said that he would discuss the issue of detention of Akbar Mengal and Akhtar Hussain Lango with the speaker of the Sindh Assembly.

The speaker directed the government to perform its responsibility of protecting people’s lives and property on an adjournment motion on frequent cases of kidnappings in Jaffarabad area. The motion was moved by opposition member Saleem Khoso.

The house was prorogued indefinitely because of lack of quorum.