The Parliamentary Working Group of the Punjab Assembly established by the Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) to strengthen legislative oversight for building peace and sustainable development in Punjab has submitted 40 questions and five resolutions before the assembly regarding implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP).
It was told by Executive Director of the SSDO Syed Kausar Abbas while briefing reporters that these questions and resolutions are related to the performance of district and local governments to implement the laws made under the NAP to counter violent extremism in Punjab.
The questions are related to details of members of districts, tehsils and union council vigilance committees under the Punjab Vigilance Committees Act 2016 mechanism to implement the Temporary Residents Act to register the tenants, status of implementation of Countering Hate Speech law by banning the organizations creating hate speech, ban on using of loud speaker and mechanism to address the issue of misuse of loud speaker at local level.
The resolutions are also related to same laws focusing on implementation of these laws and amend the laws to address the challenges of implementation. These questions and resolutions were submitted by MPA Raheela Khadim Hussain, MPA Barrister Waseem Badozai, MPA Rana Abdul Manan, MPA Sania Aashiq, MPA Seemabia Tahir, MPA Farah Agha, MPA Abida Raja and MPA Saadia Sohail.
As a next step, Kausar said the SSDO will facilitate the members of the parliamentary working groups to organize awareness seminars in their respective constituencies.
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