Bhotani, Matiuallh set to become Speaker, Dy Speaker Balochistan PA

QUETTA—The nomination papers of PML-Q (Like Minded Group) Muhammad Aslam Bhotani and Syed Matiullah Agha of Mutahidda Majlis e Ammal have been approved for the posts of Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively. The house is set to elect both the candidates unopposed as the PPPP led coalition has succeeded to muster the support of 61 out of total 65 members in the house. The house would meet to elect the Speaker and his deputy on Tuesday. Outgoing speaker Jamal Shah Kakar would administer oath to the new speaker.
Six MPAs of Balochistan National Party (Awami) took oath in Balochi while three of Awami National Party members took oath in Pashto language. 53 members of the house belonging to Pakistan Muslim League (Q), Pakistan Peoples Party, Muthida Majlas-e-Amal and others were administered oaths in national language.
Independent member Jan Ali Changezi left the house with the demand that he may also be administered oath in Darri language but his demand was not conceded and he took oath in Urdu. MPAs belonging to Mutahida Majlas-e-Amal walked out of the house in protest against Multilanguage oath taking ceremony. They said since Urdu is national language the members of the house should have been administered oath in Urdu.
In its maiden session, the house offered Fateha for the departed souls of PPP leader Muhtarama Benazir Bhutto, Nawab Mohammad Akbar Bugti, Balach Marri and Principal Residential College Loralai Professor Mohammad Ali Kakar. The session was adjourned and would resume on Tuesday.
Balochistan Assembly (BA) in its inaugural session has strongly condemned the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti and Nawabzada Balach Murree and called for UN probe into Shahadat of the two Baloch leaders.
PPP chief minister-designate Nawab Aslam Raeesani , Shafiq Ahmad Khan, Mir Muhammad Sadiq, Sardar Aslam Bazenjo, Sardr Sana Ullah Zehri. Agha Irfan and others slammed the ongoing military operation in Balochistan and shahadat of Nawab Akbar Bugti, besides calling for UN investigation into shahadat of the two Baloch leaders.
The resolution presented by Sardar Aslam Bazenjo said besides killing of hundreds of people in the ongoing military operation in the province, former governor and chief minister of Balochistan, Nawab Akbar Bugti was martyred brutally on August, 26, 2006 and Nawabzada Mir Balach Murree, son of noted tribal leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Murree was killed in mysterious conditions in November, 2007.
He demanded of the government to request UN to investigate the killings so that factual position is brought to light. The body of Nawaz Akbar Bugti be handed over to his legal heirs so that it is buried with honor as per tribal tradtions.—Agencies