Unanimous: Senate approves PAL Bill
The PAL and National Language Authority had been disarray after the devolution of education ministry.
ISLAMABAD:
A bill for making the Pakistan Academy of Letters an autonomous body was unanimously passed by the Senate on Tuesday. Law minister Farooq H Naik moved a motion to debate the bill which has already been passed by the National Assembly. Naik said the cabinet had discussed the bill to make the academy an autonomous body, keeping in view the welfare of writers and intellectuals. Senate Chairman presented the bill before the house for discussion. The PAL and National Language Authority had been disarray after the devolution of education ministry. The academy was in financial straits resulting in delay of payments of honourariums to writers and poets and salaries of the organisation’s employees.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2013.
A bill for making the Pakistan Academy of Letters an autonomous body was unanimously passed by the Senate on Tuesday. Law minister Farooq H Naik moved a motion to debate the bill which has already been passed by the National Assembly. Naik said the cabinet had discussed the bill to make the academy an autonomous body, keeping in view the welfare of writers and intellectuals. Senate Chairman presented the bill before the house for discussion. The PAL and National Language Authority had been disarray after the devolution of education ministry. The academy was in financial straits resulting in delay of payments of honourariums to writers and poets and salaries of the organisation’s employees.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2013.