Rana Sanaullah's diatribe: Sindh Assembly passes condemnation resolution

The ruling PPP's provincial lawmakers on Saturday got a condemnation resolution passed in Sindh Assembly against PML-N Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah for his 'defamatory' remarks terming party's former law minister Babar Awan, "liable to death".
The post-passing budget session with Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khohro in the chair, passed a resolution against the Punjab law minister with a unanimous vote, which the PPP lawmaker Nadeem Bhutto had tabled under the Constitution rule 211, section 102.
Scores of PPP legislators showed intention to express their sentiments on the issue of Rana Sanaullah's statement against Babar Awan. However, Nisar Khohro let only those members record their views, whom primarily the Sindh minister for parliamentary affairs and law, Ayaz Soomro had selected for speeches.
Sindh Katchi Abadis Minister Muhammad Rafiq Engineer demanded Rana Sanaullah's disqualification alleging him of violating his oath, besides rapping him for his statement against the sitting federal legislator representing the government. He warned PML-N of a strong backlash if its members continued to openly criticise the PPP members, saying such remarks against Babar Awan were unnecessary.
Sindh Minister for Electric Power, Shazia Marri termed the Punjab law minister's statement as character assassination of the ruling PPP leaders, urging the PML-N central leadership to take action against Sana for his statement that triggered discontent amongst the ruling party members.
She accused the Punjab government of holding the uplift funds of the women members of its provincial assembly, which she dubbed an illegal bar to gag the freedom of parliamentarian. Nadeem Bhutto termed Rana Sanaullah's statement a reflection of his "extremist" mindset and demanded his expulsion from the Punjab cabinet. The mover of the resolution threatened that the Punjab government would be held responsible if Rana Sanaullah's remarks triggered any untoward incident.
Sindh's legislator, Imdad Ali Pitafi called PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif an 'absconder' fleeing the state in 1999 and leaving the nation in trouble behind. Deputy Speaker Shela Raza also condemned the statement strongly. On a point of order, Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazhar ul Haq said all schools in the province were properly running and rejected a news report appeared in a leading Urdu newspaper, claiming only 7,000 primary schools in Sindh were functioning out of the total 15,000.
He said the news item was baseless and asked the newspaper to prove authenticity of its report. However, the Speaker on Pir Mazhar request sent the issue to the assembly's standing committee on education, asking its members to evolve a report for the next session. Provincial lawmaker Muhammad Nawaz Chandio invited the attention of the House to the cultivating of some types of sugarcane varieties in the province by farmers, which the agriculture department had banned.
But Agriculture Minister Ali Nawaz Shah made it clear before the House that the government had lifted ban on cultivation of some types of cane through a notification. He said the ban had been in place in the province for the last 12 years. Later, the Speaker prorogued the session.