Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq Wednesday said that the Lower House of the Parliament during the last five years passed highest number of laws and accomplished landmark achievements.
Addressing a reception hosted by the Parliamentary Reporters Association in honor of the speaker in the Parliament House, he said 136 laws were passed and out of them 49 laws were of very significant importance such as Compulsory Teaching of the Holy Quran Act, Election Act, Right to Access to Information Act, Public Interest Disclosure Act, Witness Protection and Security and Benefit Act, and Hindu Marriage Act.
He said that present assembly also passed four constitutional acts, and two of them were regarding counterterrorism efforts and two for improving the electoral system. He said the first time in the history of National Assembly seven bills were passed in the joint sitting out of which four were private member bills.
He also highlighted that 16 private members bills became laws during the tenure of incumbent assembly. He said all the issues of national importance came under discussion in the House and opposition was provided full opportunities to give its point of views on these issues.
He said the current National Assembly had also distinction to pass six budgets during its tenure.
The speaker said Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Parliamentary Committee on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor were constituted.
He said the performance of the standing committees remained tremendous and out of 34 standing committees, 10 were headed by the opposition members.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said various initiatives, including formation of strategic plan, establishment of legislative council, introduction of parliamentary studies program in top universities of the country, conducting in-house on-job training of secretariat staff had been taken during the last five years to enhance the working and performance of the National Assembly.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said, "The first ever energy audit of the Parliament House was conducted during this tenure which enabled us to explore alternative sources of energy." He said both Houses of the Parliament had passed more than half a dozen resolutions to strongly denounce the reprehensible acts of unprecedented state terrorism and violation of human rights by Indian forces in the Occupied Valley.
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