Provincial Assembly set to roll out new rules

Peshawar:

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly is set to introduce new rules and regulations after 37 years.

The Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures, Privileges, and Government Assurances held a meeting on Tuesday in the conference room of the provincial assembly.

Charee by Suraiya Bibi, The Meeting Was Attended by MPAS ABDUL Salam Afridi, Taj Muhammad TAND, Malik Adeel Iqbal, Sher Ali Afridi, Dawood Shah, Anwar Khan, Sajjadullah and Munir Hussain Laghmani.

The session continued discussions from previous meetings, focusing on amendments to the assembly’s rules and regulations.

Deputy Speaker Suraiya Bibi informed the committee that this was a momentous occasion as the committee would repeal the 1988 rules of the KP Assembly and introduce new ones that would serve as a guiding framework for the assembly secretariat in the future.

Key amendments approved in the session 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 K-P Assembly and Technical Committee chief Amjad Ali Khan also attended the meeting. Deputy Speaker Suraiya Bibi adjourned further proceedings until next day.

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