Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: NA Standing Committee on Rules of Procedure and Privileges has directed M/o Communications to immediately suspend the Deputy Superintendent Post Services Jhang region Aqleem Hussain Luk and Deputy Post Master General, Jhang Ch. Aslam and conduct an inquiry into an incident of misbehaviour with MNA Najaf Abbas Sial.

The Committee directed the Ministry to submit report of the inquiry Committee to the Rules of Procedure and Privileges Committee within fifteen days. The Committee met in Parliament House this afternoon with Mr. Muhammad Junaid Anwaar Chaudhry, MNA in the chair. The Committee was not satisfied with the replies rendered by both the officials, therefore, they directed constitution of an Inquiry Committee headed by Joint Secretary of the M/o Communications to ascertain the their culpability. The Committee directed that the Inquiry Committee may also assign responsibility if the both officials were found guilty. The Committee decided to take up the question of privilege in its next meeting.

The committee, while discussing the amendments moved by MNAs Ms. Naeema Kishwar Khan and Dr. Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari in Rule 118 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National Assembly 2007, asked to obtain views of the Legislation Wing of the National Assembly Secretariat before recommending in for passage by the House. The committee decided to take up the both the Amendments in its next meeting. The Committee deferred the discussion on question of privileges moved by MNAs Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan, Nawab Muhammad Yousaf Talpur and Ch. Jafar Iqbal till its next meeting due to inability of the Movers to attend the meeting.

The meeting was attended by several MNAs including Chaudhry Khadim Hussain, Rana Umer Nazir Khan, Ch. Bilal Ahmed Virk, Mr. Najaf Abbas Sial, Mr. Azhar Qayyum Nahra, Mr. Abdul Majeed Khan Khanan Khail and Sheikh Muhammad Akram, and other officers of the concerned departments.