Guiding framework: KP Assembly set to introduce new rules and regulations

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Deputy Speaker Suraiya Bibi on Tuesday informed the Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures, Privileges, and Government Assurances that the committee would repeal the 1988 rules of the provincial assembly and introduce new ones that would serve as a guiding framework for the assembly secretariat in the future.

An official handout said that she was speaking at a meeting of the standing committee in the conference room of the provincial assembly, which was chaired by her.MPAs Abdul Salam Afridi, Taj Muhammad Tarand, Malik Adeel Iqbal, Sher Ali Afridi, Dawood Shah, and Anwar Khan attended the meeting, while MPAs Sajjadullah and Munir Hussain Laghmani participated via video call.

The session continued discussions from previous meetings, focusing on amendments to the assembly’s rules and regulations.Key amendments that were approved included new procedures for voting inside the house, rules governing debates during sessions, temporary suspension of disruptive members under extraordinary circumstances, removal of unauthorized individuals or those causing disturbances from galleries and lobbies, deletion of inappropriate words from members’ speeches, suspension of rules in special cases, and several other significant revisions.

Former special secretary of the assembly and chairman of the Technical Committee, Amjad Ali Khan, also attended the meeting.Deputy Speaker Suraiya Bibi adjourned further proceedings until Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

In her closing remarks, she expressed gratitude to all assembly members and committee officials for their dedicated efforts in bringing about these amendments.She thanked Speaker Babar Saleem Swati for his keen interest in modernizing the assembly’s decades-old regulations.