NA body on Human Rights meets

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights met on Tuesday under the Chairmanship of MNA Babar Nawaz Khan at Parliament Lodges, Islamabad.

The meeting commenced with recitation from the Holy Quran. The Committee confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting which was held on March 21st.

The Committee discussed the implementation status of recommendations of the Committee for resolving the issues of affected people of Terbela and Warsik Dams.

The report of the 15 members Committee on affectees’ record was presented by its President, Ejaz Khan and provided to the Committee so that action could be taken to resolve their issues and allotment of plots to the affectees from the royalty of 94 trillion which was deposited to Federal Government and paid to KPK with the help of Committee of Common Interest.

It was reported by him that 30,000 acres of land was due to be allotted to the affectees of Terbela Dam in Sindh and Punjab which has not so far been allotted to them since the last fifty years.

The Committee recommended that the Chief Secretary, Government of Punjab and Chairman, Wapda should issue orders to allot the land to the affectees of Terbela Dam with the approval of Board Revenue of Punjab out of the land available in Bahawalpur and Cholistan.

The Committee also recommended that XEN, Peshawar along-with his staff and the MNA, Sajid Nawaz should visit in his constituency, Peshawar on April 4 at 10:30 am to resolve the issues of affectees of Warsik Dam and installation of meters to the consumers therein and report to the Committee on April 6 in its next meeting.

The Committee also recommended that Chief Executive Pesco should also resolve the issues of affectees and report to the committee in its next meeting for signing MOU on April 6.

The Report of the Sub-Committee to discuss the steps taken by the Government to control pollution created by the industries of Hattar, District Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan and the Labour Policy of the Government was presented by its Convener, Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqub, MNA which was accepted and adopted by the Committee.

The meeting was attended by Sahibzada Muhammad Yaqub, Ms. Aliya Kamran Murtaza, Ms. Kiran Haider, Ms. Munaza Hassan, Ms. Surriya Asghar, Ms. Zahra Wadood Fetemi, Ms. Asiya Naz Tanoli, Sajid Nawaz, Kanwar Naveed Jameel, Mrs. Naseema Hafeez Panezai , Dr. Shazia Sobia and Begum Tahira Bukhari, MNAs and officials of the Ministry of Human Rights and Provincial Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.