Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA Sidra Imran, moving an adjournment motion, requested the Speaker to allocate time for discussion on this issue. As the PTI MPA moved the motion, Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani asked the parliamentary affairs minister Mukesh Chawla what the government’s stance was on the issue. Chawla, opposing the adjournment motion, said, “Thar is important to us, but the honourable MPA has mixed many issues in one adjournment motion.” He said that this was against the rules and advised the MPA to avoid mingling issues. The opposition protested the treasury’s remarks calling the adjournment a recent occurrence, but the Speaker intervened. Earlier, PPP MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio moving a call attention notice requested Speaker Durrani to comment on his case.

Source: The Express Tribune March 02, 2019 04:27 UTC