ISLAMABAD, March 6, 2014: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly during 10^th sitting of its 10^th session discussed political appointments in the province before being prorogued on Thursday, says Free and Fair Election Network in its Daily Factsheet.

Seventeen lawmakers participated in the debate that continued for an hour and 57 minutes. Six members belonging to JUI-F, and followed by PML-N (4), PTI (3), QWP (2) and one legislator each of ANP and JI took part in the discussion.

Tabled by JUI-F lawmaker, the House adopted a resolution to constitute project committees in each constituency to monitor the use of development funds and pace of projects.

The House took up two calling attention notices (CANs). The first CAN was about disciplinary action to be taken against those government officials who have sublet the female hostel in Hangu to Frontier Highway Authority at the rate of Rs. 15,000 per month while the other CAN was about releasing the amount of tobacco cess to the districts where it is being produced.

Members’ Participation in House Proceedings

• The KP Assembly met for four hours and 33 minutes.
• The sitting started at 1612 hours against the scheduled time of 1500 hours, witnessing a delay of an hour and 12 minutes.
• The House had two prayer breaks of an hour and two minutes.
• The Deputy Speaker chaired the entire sitting.
• The Leader of the House did not attend the proceedings while the Leader of the Opposition was present for 15 minutes.
• The parliamentary leaders of ANP, QWP, PML-N, JUI-F, PPPP, AJIP, PTI and JI attended the proceedings.
• Forty-five members were present at the outset while 33 were there at the adjournment. A maximum of 71 members were observed to be present at one point of the sitting.
• Three minority members attended the sitting.
• Nine members applied for leave.
  

Output

• Tabled by JUI-F lawmaker, the House adopted a resolution to constitute project committees in each constituency to monitor use of development funds and pace of projects.
  

Representation and Responsiveness

• The House discussed political appointments in the province for an hour and 57 minutes.
• Seventeen lawmakers participated in the debate. Six members from JUI-F followed by PML-N (4), PTI (3), QWP (2) and one legislator each of ANP and JI took part in the discussion.
• The House took up two calling attention notices (CANs). Sponsored by JUI-F lawmaker, the first CAN was about disciplinary action to be taken against those government officials who have sublet the female hostel in Hangu to Frontier Highway Authority at the rate of Rs. 15,000 per month while the other CAN was sponsored by QWP legislator and was about releasing the amount of tobacco cess to the districts especially Charsadda where it is being produced.
• The House took up all seven starred questions (requiring oral as well as written replies) on the Orders of the Day. Five of them were responded to by the relevant ministries while two of them remained unanswered due to the absence of concerned legislators. Additionally, members asked nine supplementary questions.

Order and Institutionalization

• Only point of order raised by PML-N female lawmaker consumed five minutes of the proceedings.
• No instance of protest, walkout or boycott was witnessed during the sitting.

Transparency

• ‘Orders of the Day’ was available to the legislators, observers and others.
• Information on members’ attendance was not available to observers and the public.

The Daily Factsheet is based on direct observation of KP Assembly proceedings conducted by PAIMAN, a member organization of FAFEN