In prohibited water: Senate row livid with CDA chief’s deficiency from meeting

Senator Kamil Agha pronounced that while a CDA authority contingency be sensitive about a matter, he suggested a payoff suit contingency be changed opposite a CADD additional secretary. Senator Hidaytullah also seconded his proposal. PHOTO: MUDASSAR RAJA/EXPRESS

Senator Kamil Agha pronounced that while a CDA authority contingency be sensitive about a matter, he suggested a payoff suit contingency be changed opposite a CADD additional secretary. Senator Hidaytullah also seconded his proposal. PHOTO: MUDASSAR RAJA/EXPRESS

ISLAMABAD: The deficiency of Islamabad’s tip executive officials from a assembly of a Senate row drew a madness of parliamentarians on Wednesday who motionless to lift a matter with a Senate chairman.

Some of a senators also lifted questions about a legality of appointing a domestic authority as a Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) chairman.

The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat met with Senator Talha Mehmood in a chair during Cabinet Secretariat on Wednesday. The row was due to plead cases tentative with a Federal Investigation Agency over a subsidy of a tract measuring 10 kanals by CDA to Pakistan Foreign Office Women Association and defilement of CDA by-laws.

However, with Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA) Sheikh Anser Aziz and additional secretary Capital Development and Administration Division (CADD) absent, Mehmood voiced his distrurbance and deferred a assembly in protest.

Mehmood pronounced such an occurrence had never occurred in a past 11 or ever given he started streamer a committee.

He pronounced a CDA had been ‘hijacked’ as a authority had been sensitive about a assembly 12 days in advance. However, conjunction did he attend nor send applicable officials in his stead.

Mehmood also lifted questions about Aziz’s appointment, observant that never had a politician been positioned as CDA’s chairman. The senator serve slammed a statute Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for not giving council a due importance.

Senator Kulsoom Perveen pronounced a deficiency of a CDA authority was an insult to a panel.

Senator Kamil Ali Agha pronounced a CADD secretary had recently taken charge, though a additional secretary could have attended a meeting. He suggested that a payoff suit be changed opposite a CADD officials.

CDA Engineering Member Waseem Ahmed explained to a Standing Committee that a CDA authority was on a revisit to a new Islamabad Airport with Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officials and hence could not be partial of a meeting.

However, this would not assuage a senators who called for action. Senator Usman Saifullah Khan suggested that leaders of a residence and antithesis should be sensitive about a incident. Senator Rahila Magsi and Senator Saifullah Magsi corroborated him.

Senator Kamil Agha pronounced that while a CDA authority contingency be sensitive about a matter, he suggested a payoff suit contingency be changed opposite a CADD additional secretary. Senator Hidaytullah also seconded his proposal.

The cabinet unanimously motionless to write letters to Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani, Leader of a House Raja Zafarul Haq and Leader of a Opposition Senator Aitezaz Ahsan.

Senator Mehmood deferred a assembly with a agree of other members in protest, after that members a row stormed off to a chambers of Rabbani, Haq and Aitezaz to protest about a non-serious opinion of officials.

Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 22nd, 2016.

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