Requisition submitted for PA session

Published February 25, 2004

PESHAWAR, Feb 24: The combined opposition in the NWFP assembly on Tuesday submitted its requisition, along with a heavy agenda, for getting the assembly session convened in the first week of March.

The joint opposition leader Shahzada Gistasap Khan along with parliamentary leaders of the People's Party Parliamentarians Abdul Akbar Khan and PPP (Sherpao) MPA Sikandar Hayat Sherpao submitted the requisition with Speaker Bakht Jahan Khan.

Talking to Dawn, Akbar Khan of the PPP said they had submitted a 10-point agenda to force the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government to implement the development schemes identified by the MPAs in the annual development programme and the Tameer-i-Sarhad programme.

The opposition wanted to discuss the net hydel profit with the special reference to arbitration, recruitments in all departments with reference to the class four employees, national finance commission, failure of the NWFP government in initiating schemes for the ECNEC, agriculture income tax, katchi abadis, fee on power of attorney and new water rates.

He said the government had failed to put even previous year's schemes identified by the lawmakers under the Tameer-i-Sarhad Programme.

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