RECORDER REPORT

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani on Wednesday suspended the House for 30 minutes after finding the concerned ministers missing and some unanswered questions during question hour and directed Senate Secretariate not to include any government business on the orders of the day on Thursday and Friday.

Not a single question was taken up formally during the question hour and after the question hour was over, again the minister concerned was not present in the House, when PML-N Senator Javed Abbasi rose to move his calling attention notice. The chair asked him to first let him find out whether the relevant minister was around.

On finding none to answer to the notice, he said that for the sake of prestige and privilege of the Parliament, he was not with no other option but to exclude the government business during the next two sittings.

Rabbani said that a total of 39 questions were part of the question hour, however, 14 of them scuttled while some others were transferred to other ministries, which did not accept them.

The House offered for the departed souls of two military personnel, who were martyred in a terrorist attack in North Waziristan a day earlier.

Winding up a discussion on an admitted motion, Minister for Federal Education and National Training Muhammad Balighur Rehman said that as per the apex court, the federal government had continued with the Basic Education Community Schools were being run while it was the responsibility of the provinces now to take care of them and decide about construction of more such schools.