Govt business excluded from Senate proceeding

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: The chairman Senate Raza Rabbani became irritated over the continue absence of government parliamentarians from senate session and ordered to exclude the government business from agenda for two days.

The senate chairman rolling has multiplied government worries over the presenting of delimitation bill in senate, that had already been much delayed and posed threat for delimitation for next election.

During the question hour, chairman senate got infuriated over the reluctance of government ministers from answering the questions and said that one of the minister has gone for offering umrah, no news about interior minister than how can he run the house?

Pointing to federal minister Sheikh Aftab, he said, “Ministers are not serious in running the house as the attacks on parliament can’t be tolerated,” he continued government was cutting its own feet by adopting such kind of non-sense conduct.

Chairman Senate, during the question hour, has adjourned the session for half hour over government’s conduct. As the session resumed, the interior minister Ahsan Iqbal was not present in the house to reply of call attention notice, on which chairman senate aksed whereabouts of Ahsan Iqbal but no one has the answer.

“If government does not want to run the house inform me, however don’t turned the parliament ridiculous and I will not tolerate it as chairman has the right to take action over the making barriers in session proceeding,” he warned.

He ruled, “Government is non-serious in running the senate proceeding, therefore government business will remain excluded from the house agenda for next two days.”