ISLAMABAD - Ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and main Opposition Pakistan People’s Party are heading for another conflict over the distribution of chairmanships of Parliamentary Committees.
Sources in the National Assembly Secretariat informed The Nation on Wednesday that PPP has demanded chairmanship of seven Parliamentary Committees and also have proposed the names for these committees while ruling PML-N was not ready to oblige the PPP and has offered chairmanship of four committees to PPP while the rest of the slots would go to the other opposition parties including PTI.
The sources in PPP said that they have sought chairmanship of parliamentary committees for water and power, commerce, communications, railways, overseas Pakistanis, human resource development, inter-provincial coordination and also proposed the names of Nawab Yusuf Talpur, Syed Naveed Qamar, Munawar Talpur, Azra Fazal, Ayaz Soomro, Ghulam Rasood Koreja and Mustafa Mahmood to head these Parliamentary bodies.
But ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was adamant to adopt the old formula for distribution of chairmanship of these committees and not ready to give more than four committees’ chairmanship to PPP. A source in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz said under the plan four top slots of Parliamentary committees would be doled out to PPP while three would go to PTI and two to Muttahida Qaumi Movement.
The process of formation of the Parliamentary Committees would likely be completed during the upcoming session of the National Assembly after Eidul Fitr.