ISLAMABAD: The legislative body of Lower House of Parliament on Friday suggested that the Federal and Provincial Government of Sindh make joint efforts for permanent solutions to the water crises in Thar. The committee, held today in parliament house, also suggested that clean drinking water should be supplied through canal or pipes. Speaking in the National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights, chaired by Babar Nawaz Khan, MNA, the committee decided to visit the affected areas of Thar in July asked MNAs, MPAs and concerned district officers of the area to join the committee during the visit. The committee welcomed Kamran Machael’s appointment as Human Rights Minister and unanimously confirmed the minutes of its previous meeting held on 12 May. The committee directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to take action against the infestation of mice in the Parliaments Lodges on a priority basis and submit their report in the committee’s next meeting, along with satisfactory confirmation comments on letterhead of all parliamentarians residing in the Parliament lodges. The committee also took strong notice of the settling alight of an innocent girl at Abbottabad and directed the Abbottabad Police Force to arrest the culprits as soon as possible. The chairman of the committee announced a Rs 10,000 reward to the police team who took quick action against the culprits. The committee decided to take up the remaining agendas in its next meeting. MNAs Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqub, Sayed Essa Nori, Begum Tahira Bukhari, Ms. Farhana Qamar, Ms. Phyllis Azeem, Ms. Surriya Asghar, Ms. Kiran Haider, Ms. Asiya Naz Tanoli, Ms. Zahra Wadood Fatemi, Ms. Amra Khan, Dr. Shazia Sobia, Ms. Musarat Rafique Mahesar, Ms. Munaza Hassan, Kanwar Naveed Jameel, Ms. Kishwer Zehra, Ms. Aliya Kamran Murtaza and the Minister and Secretary for Human Rights attended the meeting.