A special session of the Sindh Assembly has been convened today (Saturday) where Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik is expected to brief the provincial lawmakers over the current security situation in the country, Pakistan Today has learnt. This would perhaps be the first time that the interior minister would be briefing the Sindh legislature, possibly over the current state of law and order in the metropolis as well as the rest of the terrorism-hit country.
The current volatile situation in the most-populated city of the country warrants such a briefing as cold-blooded murders of political opponents in Lyari have become a matter of routine.
On Friday, unlike the usual adjournment of the provincial legislature session until Monday, Sindh Assembly Speaker Nisar Khuhro adjourned the House until Saturday 10:00 am. Sindh Law Minister Ayaz Soomro, who, on Fridays usually, requests the chair to put off the session until Monday, was also seen a bit upset. A provincial lawmaker, requesting anonymity, told Pakistan Today at the Assembly Secretariat that the Saturday session was convened for the interior minister’s briefing. The legislator, however, added that the assembly officials had only verbally conveyed the message to him during Friday’s sitting. “I have no official intimation so far,” he said.
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