PA session put off as only five members turn up - Newspaper dawn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dawn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
KARACHI: Two members from each side of the house spoke on Monday during a debate aimed at registering their proposals for the next financial year’s budget of the provincial government.
However, the lawmakers instead of forwarding their respective proposals indulged mainly in levelling allegations and counter-allegations and passing controversial remarks against each other.
Arsalan Taj Ghumman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, who opened the pre-budget discussion, came down heavily on the Pakistan Peoples Party’s provincial government saying it could only achieve 30 per cent of its revenue target while the federal government achieved 42pc of its target.
“It is quite amazing that the Sindh government’s revenue is getting decreased but its expenditures are getting increased,” he said.
Opposition and treasury lawmakers exchange words during Friday’s stormy session of the house. PPI
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly again on Friday witnessed uproar and chaos when lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf traded insults and hurled abuses on each other.
The situation took an ugly turn at the outset of the proceedings following the remarks of PTI’s Khurram Sher Zaman, who said “it seems that there is dogs’ rule in the province” while praying for dog-bite victims.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Information, Science and Technology Minister Taimur Talpur and other PPP lawmakers lost their cool and aggressively moved toward the PTI benches, shouting at MPA Sher Zaman and advising him to control his tongue and not to act like a “goon”.
Opposition and treasury lawmakers exchange words during Friday’s stormy session of the house. PPI
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly again on Friday witnessed uproar and chaos when lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf traded insults and hurled abuses on each other.
The situation took an ugly turn at the outset of the proceedings following the remarks of PTI’s Khurram Sher Zaman, who said “it seems that there is dogs’ rule in the province” while praying for dog-bite victims.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla, Information, Science and Technology Minister Taimur Talpur and other PPP lawmakers lost their cool and aggressively moved toward the PTI benches, shouting at MPA Sher Zaman and advising him to control his tongue and not to act like a “goon”.
The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed a bill enhancing privileges and allowances of the provincial parliamentary secretaries. APP/File
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed a bill enhancing privileges and allowances of the provincial parliamentary secretaries, including ‘special allowance’ of Rs 50,000, use of a car, house rent and sumptuary allowance.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla, who presented The Sindh Parliamentary Secretaries (Salaries, Allowances and Privileges) (Amendment) Bill, 2021, said that the privileges and perks of the parliamentary secretaries were increased as their remuneration were nominal as compared to their counterparts of other provinces.
He informed the house that a common lawmaker of Sindh Assembly got a sum of around Rs155,000 monthly but a parliamentary secretary receives an additional ‘nominal’ amount of approximately Rs25,000.