ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly session which saw the passage of only one bill and witnessed four days break since its start on 29th of last month, was prorogued on Friday.
The last day’s proceedings on Friday ended after the chair allowed few points of order following extended question hour. The government was to introduce two bills, including the West Pakistan Motor Vehicle Taxation (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and the Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government (Second Amendment) Bill, 2025] along with few other items on agenda on Friday. The Lower House of the Parliament passed only one bill, the Asaan Karobar Bill, 2025, last week.
On a point of order, MQM parliamentarian Aasiya Ishaque Siddiqui questioned the legality of protest of Tehrik-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) in Islamabad. She said for how long the TLP leadership would “continue to blackmail government time and again”. “What is logic behind today’s protest while disturbing routine life in Islamabad when an agreement has reached for peace in Gaza”, she said.
Speaking on a point of order, the PML-N parliamentarian from Balochistan Mian Khan Bugti praised the civilian and military leadership for making efforts to eliminate menace of terrorism.
He stressed that there was need to allow open debate on terrorist activities of proscribed organisations such as Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) saying that law and order is the most important issue in the province.
The PTI-supported parliamentarian Muhammad Aslam Ghuman demanded that families of 20 people who died because of flood in his constituency in Sialkot should be compensated financially.
Minister for Religious Affairs, Sardar Muhammad Yousuf said the provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has not been able to reconstruct 216 schools Mansehra district which were razed in 2005 earthquake. The minority member, Sanjay Perwani, demanded payment of salaries to Hindu employees prior to Dewali festival.