KPK Assembly: Opposition walks out on power outage

KPK Assembly: Opposition walks out on power outage

Peshawar: (Tuesday, December 27, 2011) Frequent power outages seem hitting the elite as well since in today’s session, joint opposition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly staged a walkout when the speaker of the house did not allow
one of the members to raise the issue of persisting load-shedding crisis.

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Parliamentary Leader Abdul Akbar Khan, who has also served as Speaker in the past, was quick to announce adjournment of the session for today (Tuesday).

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl MPA Malik Qasim wanted to take up the loadshedding issue in the province but the Speaker suggested to him to raise the issue through an adjournment motion so that the government could also prepare a detailed reply.

Other members of the JUI-F, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao also joined the protesting members but before they could leave the house the acting Speaker adjourned the session. It left the other legislators guessing if it was
one of the shortest sessions as the chair disposed of almost all the questions and also the day’s agenda.

Earlier, minister for food, on behalf of the minister for higher education, presented the Regional Languages Authority Bill, 2011.Later, talking to reporters, Minister for Education Sardar Hussain Babak recalled that the Awami National Party (ANP) had promised
the people during election campaign to impart education in mother languages.

He said his party’s government had fulfilled its commitment to the people by presenting the mother languages bill, which would be adopted. He said some people were apprehending that the ANP would pass the bill for Pashto language only but now they had witnessed
that the bill would introduce all the mother languages.

The education minister termed it a historic decision, which would promote all mother tongues and there was no doubt there were some problems in it. He said the government was in contact with the experts, poets and writers of various languages and would overcome
the problems. He recalled that his party’s elders had been striving for provincial autonomy and now they had the right on their own resources after the passage of the 18th Amendment.

He said the people had rendered sacrifices in the war against militancy and they wanted to educate their children. He said the government had deployed security forces in some of the government buildings and schools but now most buildings had been vacated. He
said rest of the buildings would also be vacated in due course of time.

Sardar Hussain Babak said the government had decided to impart education to children through public-private partnership in all those union councils having no government schools. He said the government would bear the expenses of this initiative in Dera Ismail
Khan and Buner districts in the initial stage.

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