QUETTA – The interest of legislators from Balochistan can be gauged from the fact that the assembly could hardly meet only for ten minutes due to absence of majority of its members on Saturday.
The session of the assembly was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Speaker Matiullah Agha. Seventeen members out of 65 are required to fulfill the quorum of the house. There was no agenda for today’s session except a resolution regarding the registration of votes. When the chair asked the mover Hamal Kalmati for tabling the resolution, a member from treasury bench Ghulam Jan Baloch drew the attention of chair towards lack of quorum.
The chair adjourned the session for five minutes waiting for the quorum to be completed. After break, only ten members could hardly turn up. However the chair adjourned the session till October 25th. Expressing strong resentment over the lack of interest, Deputy Speaker said that the sessions of Assembly were not being held properly because disinterest of members. He lamented that there were sixty five members, but only ten had arrived for session.
Provincial Minister Mir Abdul Rehman Jamali regretted over the lack of interest of members towards house business and said there were more than fifty ministers who should attend the session. The standing committees of Balochistan Assembly have not been formed so far despite the lapse of more than three years and absence of opposition except two members out of total 65.
