K-P Assembly building declared polling station

PML-N’s Ikhtiar Wali takes oath as newly-elected MPA

PESHAWAR:

A one-day session of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was adjourned indefinitely after the swearing in of newly elected member Ikhtiar Wali and passing of a resolution declaring the assembly hall polling station for the Senate elections.

Provincial assembly met on Monday with Speaker Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani in the chair. The house offered fateha for the late senator Mushahid Ullah Khan and others. On this occasion, the newly elected member Ikhtiarwali was welcomed by other members of the house. The speaker administered oath on Ikhtiar Wali who was welcomed by party MPAs with slogans of deakho deakho kon aya sher aya, sher aya.

Later, Ikhtiar Wali signed the roll of members while the speaker also announced a panel of chairmen on the occasion which included Muhammad Idrees, Asiya Asad, Pir Fida Advocate and Jamshed Mohmand. In the house, provincial minister Shaukat Yousafzai moved a resolution proposing that the provincial assembly building be declared a polling station for the March 3 Senate elections, which was unanimously passed.

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The house also unanimously passed the resolution moved by PTI in which it condemned the high-handedness of the Sindh government against Haleem Adil Sheikh and demanded his protection from state repression. A resolution was also tabled by the PPP to issue diplomatic red passports to the speakers of the provincial assemblies on the lines of the chairman Senate and the speaker national assembly, while Sardar Khan, MPA from Swat, moved a resolution on construction of link roads to Malam Jabba, the house passed both the resolutions unanimously.

Unrest was created in the house when the newly inducted PML-N MPA Ikthiar Wali criticized the PTI government and lauded the PML-N leadership on which both the sides started chanting slogans.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 2^nd, 2021.