should adopt a joint resolution asking the ECP to accept the demand.
“I agree that holding elections under the supervision of administration will create doubts about the fairness of the polls and the people will point finger at its transparency, but under the rules a letter should be written to the ECP whose consent is needed. It is the commission’s domain to conduct the polls,” he clarified.
As the members suggested adopting two resolutions — holding elections on the same day and under the supervision of judiciary — Speaker Asad Qaiser ruled that the matter should be discussed by the treasury and opposition members to go for a joint resolution.Later, he allowed Shah Hussain to move the resolution that demanded holding of polls under the judiciary. It was passed unanimously.
Minister Shah Farman, who had not opposed the resolution in the first place, termed the Speaker’s attitude partial. He said allowing the opposition to move the resolution despite the treasury benches’ suggestion to adopt a joint resolution on both the issues showed the biased attitude [of the speaker].
“Despite belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), you are toeing the opposition line and are biased against the treasury,” PTI’s Shah Farman remarked.
To this the Speaker remarked that being a senior leader of the PTI he knew better how to run the House.Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz lawmaker Amna Sardar presented the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Galiyat Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2015.
Jaffar Shah introduced The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Zakat Internal Audit Staff (Regularisation of Services) Bill 2015.Both bills were kept pending for discussion.MPA Uzma Khan of JUI-F presented a resolution demanding second shifts with rational fee in medical colleges of the province.
She said due to limited seats in the medical colleges a number of deserving students remained deprived of medical education. She said these estudents were compelled to go abroad to acquire medical education which led to loss of millions of rupees to the exchequer.
However, Minister Inayatullah Khan, who had earlier served as a health minister, replied that the number of doctors had already increased due to mushroom growth of medical colleges in the public and private sectors. He said providing jobs to the doctors would become a serious problem in the next 10 years.
The minister said the rising number of medical colleges had negatively affected the quality of medical education leading to non-recognition of professional degrees abroad.Inayatullah argued that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council rules suggested establishment of nursing schools along with medical colleges as services of nurses were needed more.
Former health minister Shaukat Yousufzai said the medical colleges fees should be regularised and fixed for both public and private sector colleges.To a question by MPA Zarin Gul of the JUI-F about non-payment of money by Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) to the land owners of Achini Bala and another question by MPA Jaffar Shah about notices of closure served on private schools and hospitals in the University Town area, Minister for Local Government Inayatullah said committees had been constituted for proper solution to the matter.The speaker adjourned the House till Friday 2 pm.