KARACHI: Lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday lamented the Sindh government for keeping the opposition out of budget-making process and demanded that a pre-budget consultation session be convened.
Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Shaikh, PTI’s parliamentary leader Bilal Ghaffar, MPA Khurram Sher Zaman and other MPAs told a press conference here that the Sindh government was required to initiate a pre-budget consultation as per the rules.
Mr Shaikh pointed out that consultation with all stakeholders particularly the elected representatives was a mandatory requirement, which was being overlooked by the provincial government.
“It seems the provincial government is preparing an anti-people and mafia-friendly budget and they want to keep the opposition at bay so that they cannot expose their corrupt practices,” he said, adding that it was the right of 69 opposition members in the provincial assembly to present their inputs in t
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A file photo of Kareem Bakhsh Gabool. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA Kareem Gabool resigned from his provincial assembly seat of PS-100 over what appeared to be unaddressed complaints from the party s provincial representatives and district leadership.
Gabool had previously made headlines two days before the March 3 Senate elections when he had announced to not vote for the PTI s candidates.
In his resignation addressed to the Opposition Leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh, Gabool maintained that, On every floor of party, I always said my voice up there. My constituency of (PS-100) (NA-242) MNA Mr Saif Ur Rehman always ignored me and people of my constituency and he always did whatever he wanted for the development work of the people.
PTI, PML-N or TLP: Who can win Karachi’s NA-249?
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Friday Apr 02, 2021
NA-249 is an important constituency. Situated in the most populous city of Pakistan, Karachi, it has to date over 300,000 registered voters. Photo: Geo.tv/ file
For now, it would be premature to predict with certainty who will win the by-elections in NA-249 (Karachi West-2), a crucial Baldia Town seat which fell vacant after Prime Minister Imran Khan rescued his blue-eyed politician Faisal Vawda and helped him succeed in the Senate.
At the moment, Vawda is under probe for holding a dual nationality at the time of the 2018 national polls. The fear in the ruling party was that he could be disqualified from the lower house if the case was decided against him, which is why he is now a Senator.
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