Punjab Assembly moved to ban cell phones on campus

Punjab Assembly moved to ban cell phones on campus

Lahore: (Wednesday, January 04, 2012) The Punjab Assembly (PA) today unanimously passed a resolution banning use of cell phones in schools and colleges. The resolution, moved by Raheela Khadim Hussain, a PML-N MPA from Lahore,
was passed without any debate.

Observing a private members day, most of the members remained indifferent to business in the house, and besides the ban on cell phone, the only matter which was moved in the house was the mysterious absence of antique cannons from
a Maal Khana of Jhang. However, debate on the issue was made pending by the speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal.

The PA session started with a delay of nearly one hour. After the question-hour session, which was reserved for the Agricultural department, Syed Hassan Murtaza, a PPP MPA from Chiniot, requested the chair to hold a debate over
the deteriorating law and order in the province. On a point of order, Hassan Murtaza submitted that the recent killing of 14 people in Gujrat and robbery in the house of MPA Sajida Mir’s sister need to be attended.

However, when the Opposition’s request to hold the debate on law and order was not entertained, it staged a walkout in protest after which Wednesday (today) was reserved for the debate.

The resolution of Raheela Khadim Hussain on the ban on mobile phones in schools and colleges was endorsed by the House amid presence of four members of the Opposition, including Sajida Mir, Riffat Sultana Dar, Humaira Awais and Mohsin Leghari.

Sheikh Allauddin, a member of the PML-Q unification bloc, also came up with an adjournment motion regarding the mysterious absence of historical and antique cannons of Mughal era from the Maal Khaana (store) in Jhang. In the adjournment motion, Allauddin submitted
that the cannons, which were the property of Punjab government, had remarkable worth in the international market. He also told the House that before the Local Government system in the year 2001, the precious historical articles were kept in the Maal Khaana
working under the Deputy Commissioner. However, he said, from 2001 till date, nothing was known about the cannons worth millions of rupees.

Demanding immediate recovery of the missing material, Allauddin said this was the historical heritage of the land and the House must hold a debate on it. Another adjournment motion tabled by Dr Zamurad Yasmeen Rana of the PML-N regarding 26 labour colonies
in Punjab and evacuation of labourers from them was also made pending.

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