KARACHI, Mar 20: The Sindh Assembly is meeting on Wednesday at 10am in a requisitioned session summoned by Speaker Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah after receiving a request from the joint opposition signed by more than 45 MPAs of the Pakistan People’s Party and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.
This will be the second requisitioned one but the third session of the current parliamentary year of the assembly.
If the speaker allows the members to raise points of order soon after the recitation from the holy Quran and offering Fateha for the departed souls, the issue of the chief minister’s threat to dissolve the assembly would be taken up by the opposition, which might create commotion in the house and it is likely that the session will fail to take up the issues for which the opposition has requisitioned it.
The order of the day includes a privilege motion submitted of Shazia Atta Muhammad Maree on a statement of Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim against women in politics. In the motion, the statement was termed a blatant violation of the constitution which guarantees the participation of woman in all spheres of national life.
The other important item on the agenda is an adjournment motion of Nisar Khuhro regarding the alleged rigging in the by-election on NA-250 and PA-71 seats during which PPP activists and legislators were also harassed by reported firing on the car of MNA Azra Pechuho.
Other items on the order of the day include a question hour on the education department and announcement of 12 bills.
Besides laying of two ordinances, the Sindh Finance (Amendment) Ordinance, 2006 and the Sindh Consumers Protection Ordinance, 2007, the agenda includes the introduction of two government bills -- The Sindh Public Procurement Bill, 2006 and the Sindh Speaker’s and Deputy Speaker’s (salaries, allowances and privileges) Bill, 2006.
Sindh Criminal Prosecution Service Bill 2006, The Societies Registration (2nd Sindh Amendment) Bill 2006, the Sindh Development Authorities Laws (Revival and Amending) Bill 2006 and the Sindh Local Government (4th Amendment) Bill 2006 are included for consideration.