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Treasury and opposition members jointly supported the passing of the bill. APP/File
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday again unanimously passed the Provincial Assembly (Privileges) (Amendment) Bill 2021, overriding the objections raised by the governor to the piece of legislation earlier passed by the House on June 29.
Treasury and opposition members jointly supported the move as Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi commented that “no bureaucrat should now dare to (sic) breach privilege of the House as the bill has (automatically) become a law”.
Governor Muhammad Sarwar had sent back to the assembly the earlier bill for being in contravention to Article 66(3) and Article 10-A of the Constitution. The amendment law had added a schedule to the original 1972 Act, prescribing punishment to a bureaucrat for breach of privilege of the House, any of its committee or member and granting judicial powers to the speaker and/or the committee named by him or the House on the
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday passed a supplementary budget worth over Rs229 billion for 2020-21 with a majority vote.
The approved supplementary grants include education (Rs3.211bn), industries (Rs0.749bn), public health (Rs4.561bn), general administration (Rs6.918bn), civil works (Rs1.655bn), and police (Rs13.792bn).
The session started three hours and 19 minutes behind its scheduled time of 2pm.
Expressing his views on a cut motion in the supplementary budget for police, PML-N MPA Khalil Tahir Sindhu said that the Punjab police reported an increase in the crime rate in the province. He said if police failed to maintain law and order, why would the government allocate such a heavy additional amount for the law-enforcement agency.
‘Nisar plans to take oath of his PP-10 Rawalpindi seat’
PML-N has officially distanced itself from the development
LAHORE:
Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan plans to take oath of his PP-10 Rawalpindi seat, PTI MPA Chaudhry Muhammad Adnan said on Thursday.
Nisar, a former PML-N stalwart, contested the 2018 general elections as an independent candidate from two national and two provincial assemblies after developing differences with the Sharifs.
He only managed to win the provincial assembly seat of PP-10 Rawalpindi, losing the rest to PTI candidates.
Nisar had not taken the oath, saying it would be a sheer hypocrisy if he took the oath of the provincial assembly’s seat.