MPAs renew demand for blue passports
Another resolution for expanding the Parliament Lodges was also tabled and unanimously adopted
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Members of the Balochistan Assembly have renewed a demand for blue passports so that they could travel abroad without having to wait for long and cumbersome visa processing.
Adviser to the CM on Information Sardar Raza Muhammat Barrech tabled an amended resolution seeking blue passports for MPAs. Speaker Raheela Durrani chaired the session and accepted the resolution for debate.
“Being public representatives, it is our basic right to get blue passports. In the amended resolution we have urged the federal government to ensure that blue passports are issued to Balochistan Assembly members on a priority basis,” the resolution read.
Addressing the proceedings, former speaker Mir Jan Muhammad Jamali said the Senate’s former chairman Farooq H Naek and National Assembly’s ex-speaker Fehmida Mirza had adopted the resolution in the Centre that allowed federal lawmakers to get a blue passport as well as health facilities.
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ANP leader Zamrak Achakzai, however, opposed the move on the pretext that a previous resolution of the assembly had gone unimplemented. Achakzai said there was no need to pass more resolutions on the issue “because the federal government has not taken our demand seriously”.
Coming down hard on the centre’s behaviour, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Gul Muhamamd Dumar said it was their basic right to have a blue passport and health facilities abroad.
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Backing the resolution, Opposition Leader Maulana Abdul Wasay said the issue should be resolved in a constitutional way. “Members of other provincial assemblies are still deprived of blue passport so it should be issued to all members.”
After the thorough debate on the resolution, the speaker accepted the resolution. Another resolution for expanding the Parliament Lodges was also tabled and unanimously adopted.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2016.
Members of the Balochistan Assembly have renewed a demand for blue passports so that they could travel abroad without having to wait for long and cumbersome visa processing.
Adviser to the CM on Information Sardar Raza Muhammat Barrech tabled an amended resolution seeking blue passports for MPAs. Speaker Raheela Durrani chaired the session and accepted the resolution for debate.
“Being public representatives, it is our basic right to get blue passports. In the amended resolution we have urged the federal government to ensure that blue passports are issued to Balochistan Assembly members on a priority basis,” the resolution read.
Addressing the proceedings, former speaker Mir Jan Muhammad Jamali said the Senate’s former chairman Farooq H Naek and National Assembly’s ex-speaker Fehmida Mirza had adopted the resolution in the Centre that allowed federal lawmakers to get a blue passport as well as health facilities.
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ANP leader Zamrak Achakzai, however, opposed the move on the pretext that a previous resolution of the assembly had gone unimplemented. Achakzai said there was no need to pass more resolutions on the issue “because the federal government has not taken our demand seriously”.
Coming down hard on the centre’s behaviour, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Gul Muhamamd Dumar said it was their basic right to have a blue passport and health facilities abroad.
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Backing the resolution, Opposition Leader Maulana Abdul Wasay said the issue should be resolved in a constitutional way. “Members of other provincial assemblies are still deprived of blue passport so it should be issued to all members.”
After the thorough debate on the resolution, the speaker accepted the resolution. Another resolution for expanding the Parliament Lodges was also tabled and unanimously adopted.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2016.