IK, Hamza Shahbaz, Faryal Talpur top the WORST performing MNAs’ list

• Women bag all top spots in PILDAT’s assessment of MNAs for 2015-16

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz member and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s son Hamza Shahbaz and Pakistan People’s Party’s Faryal Talpur top the list of worst performing National Assembly members for the year 2015-16 according to a report by Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT).

All three scored the lowest 20 percent and the 39^th position on the scorecard of systematic assessment of individual parliamentary performance of members of 14th National Assembly of Pakistan. Prime minister, speaker and deputy speaker, federal ministers, ministers of state and leader of the Opposition are not included in this assessment.

Women parliamentarians grabbed all the top spots in the three parameters of Oversight, Legislation and Representation. Naeema Kishwer, JUI-F MNA, scored the highest score of 70 percent attendance and hence was the most prominent MNA.

The top performer in Oversight is Naeema Kishwer Khan, KP, JUI-F, with an average score of 3.4 out of 5. Although she has chaired no committee, she is a member of four (4) committees, presented 2 resolutions, 11 Calling Attention Notices and 134 questions in the House during the year. The top performer in Legislation is Dr Nikhat Shakeel Khan, Sindh, MQM, with a total of 8 private member’s bills introduced in the National Assembly during the year. The top performers in Representation are Naseema Hafeez Panezai, Balochistan, PMAP and Aliya Kamran, Balochistan, JUI-F, with the highest attendance of 100 percent in the plenary sessions of the National Assembly.

According to the scorecard, 308 MNAs of 339 attained ranks or positions between 1 and 39.

MNAs from Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) bagged all the top 15 positions while the largest percentage of these MPAs is from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The overall average score of MNAs is 38 percent and the average attendance of individual MNAs in plenary sessions of National Assembly stands at 61 percent.

The MNAs who occupy top 10 positions are Naeema Kishwar Khan, KP, JUI-F, with 70 percent overall score; Muzammil Qureshi, NA-253 Karachi-XV, MQM with 67 percent overall score; Sher Akbar Khan, NA-28 Bunair, JIP with 65 percent overall score; Dr Nikhat Shakeel Khan, Sindh, MQM with 63 percent overall score; Shahida Rehmani, Sindh, PPPP with 63 percent overall score; Aisha, KP, JIP with 62 percent overall score; Dr Shazia Sobia, Sindh, PPPP with 60 percent overall score; Sahibzada Tariq Ullah, NA-33 Upper Dir-cum-Lower Dir, JIP with 60 percent overall score; Mian Abdul Manan, NA-83 Faisalabad-IX, PML-N with 59 percent overall score; Tahira Aurangzeb, Punjab, PML-N with 59 percent overall score; Dr Nafisa Shah, Sindh, PPPP with 57 percent overall score; Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqub, NA-34 Lower Dir, JIP with 56 percent overall score; Khalida Mansoor, Punjab, PML-N with 55 percent overall score; Munaza Hassan, Punjab, PTI with 55 percent overall score.