SENATE SECRETARIAT

 

ORDERS OF THE DAY

 

for the meeting of the Senate to be held at 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday, the 30th December, 2015.

 

1.      Recitation from the Holy Quran.

 

QUESTIONS

 

2.      Questions entered in a separate list to be asked and answers given.

 

CONSIDERATION OF ADMISSIBILITY OF

ADJOURNMENT MOTIONS

 

3.      Admissibility of the following Adjournment Motions will be determined:-

 

(i)

Adj. Motion No. 08 (122)/2015-M, notice given of by Senators Col. (R) Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi, Saeed Ghani, Ilyas Ahmad Bilour, Nauman Wazir Khattak, Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar and Hafiz Hamdullah, regarding privatization of PIA;

Adj. Motion No. 17 (122)/2015-M, notice given of by Senator Sheher Bano Sherry Rehman, regarding privatization of PIA;

 

 

Clubbed

 

 

 

(ii)

Adj. Motion No. 15 (122)/2015-M, notice given of by Senator Col. (R) Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi, regarding failure of the Federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governments to hold judicial inquiry into the gruesome and heinous attack on the innocent children of Army Public School, Peshawar on 16th December, 2014; and

 

 

(iii)

Adj. Motion No. 20 (122)/2015-M, notice given of by Senator Farhatullah Babar, regarding the statement made by the Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control in the National Assembly on 17th December, 2015 that the Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control is not responsible in totality for the effective implementation of the National Action Plan.

 

 

CALLING ATTENTION NOTICE

 

4.      SENATOR MOHSIN AZIZ, to draw attention of the Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization, to a matter of public importance regarding charging of withholding tax by banks, even from the filers, on banking transactions.

 

BILL TO BE INTRODUCED

 

5.      SENATOR MOHAMMAD ISHAQ DAR, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization, to introduce the Bill to provide for the regulation of futures market [The Futures Market Bill, 2015].

 

REPORTS OF THE STANDING COMMITTEES - PRESENTATION OF:

 

6.      SENATOR MIR MUHAMMAD YOUSAF BADINI, Chairman, Standing Committee on Climate Change, to present report of the Committee on the Bill further to amend the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997 [The Pakistan Environmental Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2015].

 

7.      SENATOR NUZHAT SADIQ, Chairperson, Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, to present report of the Committee on an adjournment motion moved by Senator Sassui Palijo on her behalf and on behalf of Senator Saleem Mandviwala, on 4th November, 2015, regarding failure of Foreign Policy of Pakistan on account of non-election of Pakistan as Member of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

 

CALLING ATTENTION NOTICE

 

8.      SENATOR SITARA AYAZ, to draw attention of the Minister for Climate Change, to a matter of public importance regarding continuous operation of heavy crushing machinery on the Margalla Hills near Taxila causing great troubles, diseases, pollution and spoiling the natural beauty as well as wild life.

 

 

 

AMJED PERVEZ

Secretary

 

Islamabad, the

29th December, 2015.