Business as usual for PTI in Sindh PA

While over two-dozen MPAs of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf submitted their resignation to their parliamentary party leader Khurram Sher Zaman on the call of former prime minister Imran Khan, nearly half of them attended the Sindh Assembly session, took part in the business and then staged a walkout in protest over the attitude of the chair on Monday.

The situation took an unpleasant turn after Question Hour when Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani bluntly refused to proceed with the call attention notice given by PTI's Dr Syed Imran Ali Shah, who wanted the revenue minister to inform the house about the progress of investigations into a multibillion-rupee land acquisition scam.

The chair became visibly irked when the PTI lawmaker continued to ask him to take up his call attention notice.

"Under the Assembly Rules, time for call attention notices is 30 minutes," he said, asking the PTI members to follow the rules. The disgruntled lawmakers of the PTI walked out of the house in protest without chanting slogans and tearing off the copies of the agenda, a common practice during their protests.

At the outset of the hearing, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah rose to request the chair to fix time next week for discussing flood situation.

-APP GILGIT Office of the Assistant Commissioner Gupis distributed blanket and other warm stuff in the affected of land sliding with the collaboration of Hayat foundation.