National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser Tuesday constituted 36 standing committees of the Lower House comprising MNAs from various political parties as well as independent lawmakers, a private TV channel reported.
According to a notification issued by the National Assembly Secretariat, a 20-member standing committee on defence has been formed which includes Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Tahir Sadiq, Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) member Ghous Bux Mahar and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Barjees Tahir. In all, eight members of the committee are from th
e PTI, five are from the
PML-N, three belong to the Pakistan People’s Party-Parliamentarian (PPPP), while one each represents GDA, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal Pakistan (MMAP).
In the 20-member standing committee on interior, nine members are from th
e PTI, five are from the
PML-N and three belong to the PPPP. These include Nafeesa Khattak, Akhtar Mengal, Marriyum Aurangzeb and Abdul Qadir Pat
el. The 20-member standing committee on foreign affairs includes 10 members from th
e PTI, five from the
PML-N and two from the PPPP. Prominent names include Fakhar Imam, Makhdoom Zain Qureshi and Maleeka Ali Bokhari, Zahra Fatemi and Maiza Hameed, Hina Rabbani Khar and Mohsin Dawar.
Bilawal B
hutto Zardari has been named in the standing committee for human rights. Asif Zardari, however, has not been named in any committee.
Khwaja Asif will serve as a member of the standing committee for water resources. The chairpersons for commit
tees have not yet been appointed.
Published in Daily Times, February 6th 2019.
