The seriousness of the government can be gauged from the fact that it is yet to submit nominations of its parliamentarians in the National Assembly Secretariat for the formation of the parliamentary committee on All Parties Conference (APC). The government had announced to form the committee, after the much propagated APC, to oversee the implementation of earlier parliamentary resolutions as well as the APC resolution passed. All other parties have submitted their nominations in this regard. According to NA sources, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Awami National Party (ANP), Pakistan Muslim League (F), parliamentary leaders from FATA have finalised names for committee. MQM has nominated senior member Haider Abbas Rizvi for the committee. FATA parliamentarians have proposed Munir Orakzai, parliamentary leader of FATA MNAs. MNA Haji Khuda Bux Rajar has been nominated from PML-F. PML-N and PML-Q has nominated parliamentarians in this regard.
In the last national assembly session, the leader of the opposition in national assembly Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan raised concerns over the delay in constituting the committee, saying that the NA session was going to adjourn but the parliamentary committee has not been constituted. In response to him, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, in the national assembly, said it was up to parliament to expedite the nomination process as the matter had been referred to the speaker.
On it National Assembly Secretariat had written separate letters to party leaders including Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, Asfand Yar Wali, Maulana Fazalur Rahman, Faisal Saleh Hayat , Munir Orakzai and others to send nominations for the committee. As per the thirteenth (last point of resolution) point of the APC resolution, ‘a parliamentary committee be formed to oversee the implementation of earlier resolutions as well as this Resolution and progress on the same be made public on monthly basis’.
