Opp to submit requisition for PA session today
Bureau Report

PESHAWAR—The NWFP combined opposition will submit requisition for provincial assembly session on Monday with law and order situation in the province on top of the agenda. It was decided in a meeting of the combined opposition held at the residence of Bashir Ahmad Bilour here on Sunday, which was chaired by opposition leader in the assembly Shahzada Gustasip Khan and attended by Anwar Kamal of PML-N, Syed Mureed Kazim of PPP-S, Mushtaq Ghani, Nighat Yasmeen Orakzai of PML-Q and Tariq Khattak of PPP-P.
After the meeting Nighat Yasmeen Orakzai told INP that besides law and order the relief operations in earthquake hit areas, annual development programme and unemployment had been included in the agenda for requisition of assembly session. She said that they would submit the requisition in the provincial assembly secretariat on Monday. She said that the opposition had got forward bloc’s requisition- signed by 17 MPA’s - but they would not submit their requisition.
She said that they would submit only the requisition signed by opposition lawmakers. She said that the forward bloc was the internal problem of the MMA, but the emergence of dissidents in the religious alliance was the result of government’s failure to deliver. She said that the meeting discussed law and order situation in the province and expressed concern over increasing robberies, mugging, murders and other heinous crimes in the province.
When asked about summoning meeting of standing committee on law and order, she said, “we want to discuss the issue on the floor of the house, as it is not the problem of 9-member committee, but of the 124 members of provincial assembly.” Nighat acknowledged that the law and order situation in the Frontier province was better then other provinces in the past, but that days had gone, as dacoity and car snatching and other crimes had become a routine matter.
She said that the government was satisfied with law and order in the province, then it should remove guards from their residences and mosques. She said when they lead prayers they were being guarded by policemen. About relief operation in quake-ravaged areas, she said that the opposition was not satisfied with the government’s role and it never appreciated its performance as claimed by the rulers. She said that the lawmakers from quake-hit areas had some reservations about relief goods and cheques distribution among the victims.
She said that the opposition wanted detailed debate on relief operation and rehabilitation of the quake affectees.