High on the agenda: Senate panel to take up Indian aggression on LoC

The house will also convene meetings of various committees

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Defence will take up this week the latest acts of indiscriminate firing and ceasefire violations by Indian troops that have led to the deaths of many civilians across the Line of Control and Working Boundary.

A number of meetings of different standing committees of the upper house will also take place in the Parliament House during the ongoing week.

The committees are: finance revenue economics affairs, statistics and privitisation, law, justice and human rights, cabinet secretariat, textile industry, states and frontier regions, defence and defence production.

The Senate Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights will discuss the government bills: The Federal Judicial Academy introduced by Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights Pervaiz Rashid, and the Electoral Laws (Amendment) Ordinance.

The same meeting will take up a Constitution Amendment Bill that was introduced by Senator Muhammad Mohsin Khan Leghari last month and the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2015 introduced by JUI-F Senator Hafiz Hamdullah in March.

The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet will also discuss public petitions pertaining to Sector I-11 katchi abadi in Islamabad.

Other matters to be taken up by the committee are the functions and performance of Baitul Mal and its progress in the last two years, sanitary conditions of hospitals in Islamabad and non-payment of salaries to the contractual computer teachers under the Federal Directorate of Education.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 7^th,  2015.