SENATE SECRETARIAT

ORDERS OF THE DAY

 

for the  meeting of the  Senate  to be  held at 02.00 p.m. on Wednesday, the 20th January, 2016.

 

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 MOTION

 

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

 

 

Adj. Motion No. 06 (123)/2016-M, notice given of by Senator Sassui Palijo regarding the visit of the Prime Minister and the Chief of Army Staff to Iran and Saudi Arabia which is contrary to the recent briefing given by the official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs in which it was stated that it is not the right time for mediation between the two countries.

 

 

REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE - PRESENTATION OF:

 

4.      SENATOR BAZ MUHAMMAD KHAN, Chairman, Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, to present report of the Committee on the Bill further to amend the Minimum Wages for Unskilled Workers Ordinance, 1969 in its application to the Islamabad Capital Territory [The Minimum Wages for Unskilled Workers (Amendment) Bill, 2015].

 

CALLING ATTENTION NOTICE

 

5.      SENATOR MIAN MUHAMMAD ATEEQ SHAIKH to draw attention of the Minister for National Food Security and Research, to a matter of public importance regarding the recent acute shortage of wheat (Atta) in Gilgit Baltistan due to which the people of the area are suffering badly.

 

AMENDMENTS TO THE SENATE RULES

(Under Rule 278)

 

6.      SENATORS RAJA MUHAMMAD ZAFAR-UL-HAQ (Leader of the House), MUSHAHID HUSSAIN SYED AND MUHAMMAD USMAN KHAN KAKAR, 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 173, in sub-rule (1), for the word “four”, the word “five” shall be substituted”; and

 

          (ii)      in rule 257, after sub-rule (2), the following new sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:-

 

                          “(3)      A detailed report of the business transacted by the Senate during a session shall be made public after prorogation of every session, as soon as practicable and a detailed report of the businesses transacted by the Senate during a parliamentary year shall also be made public at the end of each parliamentary year, as soon as practicable.”

 

(If leave is granted)

 

7.      SENATORS RAJA MUHAMMAD ZAFAR-UL-HAQ (Leader of the House), MUSHAHID HUSSAIN SYED AND MUHAMMAD USMAN KHAN KAKAR, to move that the proposed amendments in rules 173 and 257 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, be taken into consideration.

 

8.      SENATORS RAJA MUHAMMAD ZAFAR-UL-HAQ (Leader of the House), MUSHAHID HUSSAIN SYED AND MUHAMMAD USMAN KHAN KAKAR, to move that the proposed amendments in rules 173 and 257 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, be adopted.

 

 

 

 

 

AMJED PERVEZ

Secretary

Islamabad, the

19th January, 2016.