Summary The PML-N has boycotted the Parliamentary Commission on creation of new provinces.
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Commission on creation of new provinces has worked out its rules and regulations amid persisting boycott by PML-N.
Commission met here under its chairman Farhat Ullah Babar in parliament house Monday. Only four members including Haji Adeel, Farooq Sattar and Sughra Imam attended the meeting while PML-N boycotted it.
Talking to newsmen after the meeting Farhat Ullah Babar said commission would continue its work despite PML-N boycott. “If PML-N has any reservations they should come in the meeting and we will address their concerns”, he held.
Commission will finalise its proposals on creation of new provinces soon, he added. “Commission has decided to solicit proposals in writing from different stakeholders on the issue of carving of new provinces besides seeking view point of leading experts, he remarked.
The stakeholders have been asked to send their proposals to the commission within ten days, he told the journalists. Next meeting would be convened this week, he pointed out.
To a question Babar said commission’s previous meeting was held in September and the delay in summoning the next meeting occurred due to the fact that commission was invested with no powers nor had it evolved its rules and regulations.
Speaker National Assembly had issued notification on delegation of powers to the commission on December 3, he indicated.
He went on to say that commission had been constituted in the light of unanimously adopted resolution of Punjab Assembly. Through this resolution it was demanded from the president to devise procedure for creation of two new provinces in Punjab.
To another question he said that another resolution through which one commission was rejected was not a consensus resolution.
Senator Haji Adil said “we have also to see on commission’s forum if creation of new provinces was financially feasible’’.
