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Punjab PA adopts bill pursued by speaker
Amendment to emergency service law gets unanimous backing
Punjab Assembly. PHOTO: APP
LAHORE:
The provincial government on Tuesday placed ‘The Punjab Emergency Service (Amendment) Bill 2021’ on the agenda of the Punjab Assembly and managed to get it passed unanimously. Speaker Chaudhry Pervez Elahi had recently expressed displeasure over the government’s failure to table the bill.
The government seemed eager to avoid opening a new front with its allies over the issue and decided to keep the assembly’s atmosphere cool. The assembly proceedings continued for about 40 minutes and several questions were put off to take up the bill. It was a private members’ day. Normally, the government does not introduce its business on the private members’ day. The assembly also passed The Punjab Transparency and Right to Information (Amendment) Bill and Times Institute Multan (Amendment) Bill 2021.
PML-N’s Samiullah Khan stressed for passing the bill immediately to encourage other members to work on drafting bills on the sectors being ignored by the government. APP/File
LAHORE: The treasury blocked the introduction of the Punjab Emergency Service (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Punjab Assembly when the house met here on Tuesday as the law minister argued that being a money bill it could not be moved by a private member.
PML-Q MPA Khadija Umar is the mover of the bill.
Law Minister Muhammad Basharat Raja requested Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi to pend the bill for Thursday as the government was drafting its own bill and would move it other than the Private Members Day.
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