National Assembly session underway

ISLAMABAD : National Assembly session has been underway here on Friday, Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi is chairing today’s session. It is expected that names of beneficiaries of loans write of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) will be presented in today’s session.
On Thursday Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Babar Awan told the National Assembly that the government was ready to present list of all those whose loans were written off in the past and those who benefited from National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in the National Assembly.
This he said while responding to supplementary questions raised by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Khawaja Asif and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) legislator Nadeem Afzal Chan during Question Hour.
Babar Awan said that a crime is crime whether it is committed today, yesterday or tomorrow, so details of all those involved in plunder of national wealth would be brought in the House, he added. Babar said it is the first government which has offered itself for accountability.
Khawaja Asif had asked for the list of names of persons whose loans were written off by the State Bank of Paksitan (SBP) during the Musharraf era.


Nadeem Afzal Chan demanded that names of all who got their loans written off in the past should be presented in the House. He requested the Prime Minister to form a committee to disclose the names of all corrupt people.
Mutahhida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MNA Abdul Qadir Khanzada supported the demand of the PPP MNA and said that a committee should be formed for this purpose and names of all such persons should be brought in the House.
Parliamentary Leader of PML-Q Faisal Saleh Hayat said that there was no need to form a committee as formation of the committees only delays the process.He said that record of corruption was available with the ministries and the whole information can be brought in the current session of the National Assembly.
He said that National Accountability Bureau has been abolished and no new accountability law has been passed,so there was presently no mechanism available for accountability.
Faisal Saleh said it was appreciable that the Prime Minister has offered himself for accountability.
Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Naveed Qamar said that politicians are being targeted through media trial.He said the country needs clean and good governance.He referred to the arrests of politicians including Faisal Saleh Hayat and himself during the Musharraf era.