Redressing issues: Committee formed to look into Thar situation

KARACHI:

Sindh Assembly speaker Agha Siraj Durrani finally formed a four-member parliamentary committee to visit the drought-hit Tharparkar district where more than 500 children have died this year.

The committee will investigate the prevailing condition and suggest measures so that such a situation can be avoided in the future. The committee was made in view of opposition leader Shaharyar Mahar's resolution adopted by the assembly on November 11. According to a notification issued by Sindh Assembly secretary GM Umar Farooq, the committee, comprising Ameer Hyder Shah Shirazi of Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz, Saeed Nizamani of Pakistan Muslim League - Functional, Zafar Kamali of Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Dr Mahesh Malani of Pakistan Peoples Party, will visit different areas of Thar and submit the report in the next assembly session.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 28^th, 2014.