SENATE SECRETARIAT

 

ORDERS OF THE DAY

 

for the meeting of the Senate to be held at 10.00 a.m. on Friday, the 22nd January, 2016.

 

1.      Recitation from the Holy Quran.

 

QUESTIONS

 

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

 

CALLING ATTENTION NOTICE

 

3.      SENATOR MUHAMMAD JAVED ABBASI to draw attention of the Minister for Capital Administration and Development Division, to a matter of public importance regarding the delay in completion of Islamabad Citizens’ Club in F-9 Park, Islamabad.

 

 

AMENDMENTS TO THE SENATE RULES

(Under Rule 278)

 

4.      SENATORS NUZHAT SADIQ, SYED MUZAFAR HUSSAIN SHAH, IQBAL ZAFAR JHAGRA AND COL. (R) SYED TAHIR HUSSAIN MASHHADI, to seek leave under sub-rule (4) of rule 278 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, to move that,-

 

                    (i)      in rule 184, for sub-rule (1), the following shall be substituted, namely:-

 

                                       “(1)   A sitting of Committee shall be held at such day and time as the Chairman of the Committee may fix:

 

                             Provided that,-

 

                             (i)      The Secretary to the Committee shall communicate the date and time to the Secretary of the concerned Ministry/Division;

 

                             (ii)     The Secretary of the concerned Ministry/Division, shall within three days of the receipt of the intimation, convey his confirmation or suggest an alternate day and time which shall not vary the original date and time for more than one week; and

                            

                             (iii)    If the concerned Secretary fails to respond in terms of paragraph (ii), the date and time given originally shall be deemed to be the date and time of the meeting:

                  

                             Provided further that in case of emergency, the Chairman of the Committee may, for the reasons to be recorded, call the meeting of the Committee without giving prior intimation, in terms of paragraph (i):

                  

                                       Provided further that the meeting of a Committee for election of its Chairman shall be fixed by the Chairman Senate.”

         

                    (ii)     in rule 198, in sub-rule (1), the words “in consultation with the Minister concerned” shall be omitted.

 

(If leave is granted)

 

5.      SENATORS NUZHAT SADIQ, SYED MUZAFAR HUSSAIN SHAH, IQBAL ZAFAR JHAGRA AND COL. (R) SYED TAHIR HUSSAIN MASHHADI, to move that the proposed amendments in rules 184 and 198 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, be taken into consideration.

 

6.      SENATORS NUZHAT SADIQ, SYED MUZAFAR HUSSAIN SHAH, IQBAL ZAFAR JHAGRA AND COL. (R) SYED TAHIR HUSSAIN MASHHADI, to move that the proposed amendments in rules 184 and 198 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, be adopted.

 

PAPERS TO BE LAID BEFORE THE SENATE

 

7.      SENATOR MOHAMMAD ISHAQ DAR, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization, to lay before the Senate the First Quarterly Report for the year 2015-2016 of the Central Board of Directors of the State Bank of Pakistan on the state of the Economy, as required under section 9A(f) of the State Bank of Pakistan Act, 1956.

 

CALLING ATTENTION NOTICE

 

8.      SENATOR MIAN MUHAMMAD ATEEQ SHAIKH to draw attention of the Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control, to a matter of public importance regarding terrorist attack on Polio Vaccination team in Quetta which resulted into  death of thirteen personnel of Law Enforcing Agencies who were performing their duties with Polio Vaccination team and two others.

 

 

 

                                                                                      AMJED PERVEZ

                                                                                        Secretary

Islamabad, the

21st January, 2016.