The Senate met briefly at the Parliament House in Islamabad on Friday with Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani in the chair and passed “The Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government (Amendment) Bill, 2022.”
The bill is aimed at increasing the number of existing Union Councils in Islamabad and direct election of mayor.
Under the amendments, there will be 125 Union Councils within the Islamabad Capital Territory to cater for the existing population of the federal capital. The Mayor and Deputy Mayor shall be directly elected as joint candidates by the voters. The bill has already passed by the National Assembly.
The chair prorogued the session amid sloganeering from the opposition benches.
During the session, Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman said the opposition was not interested in debating the law and order situation in the country, particularly the recent wave of terrorism.
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Speaking in the Senate, she said the session of the Upper House of Parliament was requisitioned in the wake of increasing incidents of terrorism, especially the attack on Counter-Terrorism Department in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
She said though the opposition members attended the session but they avoided discussing the law and order situation. They were rather more interested in destabilizing the country, she added.
They must answer the question that who was sponsoring terrorism in the country and who was interested in instability, the minister said.
