‘Balloting draw for selection of Deputy Chairman Senate to be held in January’
By Asim Hussain

ISLAMABAD—Expressing the satisfaction over the performance of Senate, Chairman Senate Muhammad Mian Soomro has said that balloting draw for the selection of deputy chairman senate will be held in the early of January of the next year.
“Senate is completing its tenure on March 12, 2006 and I am satisfied with the three year performance of Senate,” he stated this on Sunday while talking to the journalists during his visit to see a model house using bamboo for the construction of housing in earthquake-hit areas of NWFP and AJK.
He said that election commission is responsible for holding the balloting draw for the selection of deputy chairman senate and EC was working on that direction.
Responding to a question whether he will take part in the next election of chairman senate, he informed the journalists that it relied on the Party and it would be carried out unanimously by the party decision.
He further said that all strata of the society including lawyers, NGOs and donors were taking party in relief operations in the quake-hit areas. “Government has taken initiatives timely and it is providing all facilities for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the earthquake victims,” he added.
He said that the government, the civil society and NGOs were doing commendable job as they were busy in activities aimed at alleviating the sufferings of earthquake victims.” Bamboo housing project is step in that direction,” he said.
He said that such houses would provide safe and sound shelters to the earthquake victims and help save them from the cold wave of the winter season.
He said that government was performing well in the quake-hit areas of the NWFP and AJK and all resources were being carried out to provide relief and minimize the sufferings of the quake victims and all possible measures would be taken in future to continue the relief operations.
An economist and aumani of Sargodha PAF school Kaiser Kaleem who floated the idea of bamboo housing informed the senate chairman that two Bangladeshi workers had built the model house and these bamboos were cheap, flexible and winter proof.
Earlier, Chairman Senate attended a marriage ceremony of a young couple whose families were badly hit by the recent earthquake. The ceremony was arranged by non government organization “khobab Foundation” that is engaged in relief activities in the quake-hit areas.