Imran?s matrimony during Iddat: Treasury female MPs cause furore in Punjab Assembly
 

By News desk
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday witnessed a brief uproar over Imran Khan?s marriage with Bushra Maneka at the time when she was in her Iddat period.
On a point of order, Lubna Faisal, a PML-N MPA, drew the attention of the House towards the media reports pertaining to the third marriage of the PTI chairman with a divorced woman who hasn?t completed her Iddat.
As the PML-N members chanted slogans of ?shame, shame?, the PTI counterparts also responded and started listing the marriages of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.
However, Speaker Rana Iqbal ordered the members to avoid discussing the issue.
During the session, the opposition walked out of the session again, accusing the Speaker of partisan behaviour after the speaker not allowed discussion on recent petroleum products price-hike.
Opposition Leader Mehmood-ur-Rashid raised a point of order demanding a discussion over the unjustified increase in oil prices. He said there had not been any substantial increase in the process in the world, while the government in Pakistan was crushing the people to balance out their terrible financial policies.
Mahmood was stopped by the speaker who interrupted his speech by saying that the point could not be discussed in the provincial assembly because it was about a federal subject.
The opposition leader argued that National Accountability Bureau (NAB) was also a federal institution and if Rana Sanaullah could present, discuss and get a resolution passed about it why this issue could be taken up by the House.
He said the NAB resolution was guarding an individual while this issue concerns the 220 million people of this country. He said therefore if the rules of the provincial assembly could be suspended to allow for the NAB resolution, discussing an issue affecting the entire populous adversely was also possible.
The speaker, however, did not consider that argument and said if the matter of petroleum prices was to be discussed in that manner, the proper procedure of submitting a resolution and getting it approved should be adopted instead of random point of order.
The opposition accused the speaker of showing a partisan behaviour and walked out of the assembly. While on their way out PTI MPA Nabila Hakim Ali Khan pointed out quorum. The quorum was found short and despite the usual bell-ringing exercise could not be completed on which the session was adjourned until Wednesday (today).
Provincial Home Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Rana Muhammad Afzal did not show up because of which the questions regarding the Home Ministry could not be answered and were pended for a later day by Rana Iqbal. Parliamentary Secretary for Law & Parliamentary Affairs Ch Nazar Hussain addressed the questions regarding law and order.
Earlier, the House passed two resolutions on this private member day with slight amendments to their texts. The resolution by Hina Pervez Butt called for building of mass storage (reservoirs) on emergent basis to address the water crisis. Provincial Minister for Human Rights and Minority Affairs Khalil Tahir Sindhu proposed that the resolution may be amended to state that the reservoirs be built in the light of the feasibility studies done by the relevant department, which was accepted by Hina Pervez Butt and the resolution was passed.
The second resolution passed by the assembly was about the pending issue of Katchi Abadis. Nabila Hakim Ali demanded that the habitants of declared Katchi Abadis by the Lahore Development Authority should be given ownership as soon as possible.Sindhu acknowledged the demand as legitimate, however, he proposed an amendment stating that the ownership rights be given according to the government policies already defined, to which the mover of the resolution agreed and it was passed.

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