ISLAMABAD, October 7, 2016: The Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) passed three bills and adopted one resolution during 8^th sitting of its ongoing 21^st session on Friday, says Free and Fair Election Network in its Daily Factsheet.

Following are key observations of the proceedings:

Members’ Participation

• The KP Assembly met for an hour and 26 minutes.
• The sitting started at 1552 hours against the scheduled time of 1500 hours.
• Fifty-five lawmakers (44%) were present at the start and 51 (41%) at the adjournment of the sitting. A maximum of 64 members (52%) were observed to be present at one point of the sitting.
• The Speaker chaired the entire sitting.
• The Deputy Speaker was not present.
• The Chief Minister attended the sitting for an hour and 18 minutes while the Leader of the Opposition was absent.
• Parliamentary leaders of JI and PML-N were present.
• Two minority members attended the sitting.
• Eleven members applied for leave.

Output

• The House passed three bills, including the KP Blood Transfusion Safety Authority Bill, 2016; the BRAINS Institute Bill, 2016 and the Public-Private Partnership (Amendment) Bill, 2016.
• The House witnessed introduction of KP Lissaail-e-Wal Mahroom Foundation (Amendment) Bill, which was forwarded to the relevant committee for further consideration.
• The House witnessed the presentation of KP Mines and Mineral Development and Regulations Ordinance 2016.
• The House adopted a resolution demanding the federal government to fulfill its commitment regarding construction of western route of China Pakistan Economic Corridor on priority.
• The House adopted a report of Standing Committee on Communication & Works Department.

Representation and Responsiveness

• The House took up a Calling Attention Notice (CAN) regarding provision of allowance for staff of Provincial Assembly and Civil Secretariat as has been committed in the annual budget.

• A CAN regarding provision of development funds for Bannu was withdrawn by the mover while the House did not consider another notice due to the absence of mover.

• Privilege Motions of PPPP lawmaker against the principal of a college in Dir and another of PTI lawmaker against Hostel Warden in Peshawar were considered by the House. Both the motions were referred to the relevant committee for further deliberation.
• Three out of eight Starred Questions appearing on the agenda were answered by the relevant departments. In addition, one Supplementary Question was also raised by a lawmaker.

Order and Institutionalization

• Ten minutes were consumed on a Point of Order.

Transparency

• ‘Orders of the Day’ was available to the legislators, observers and others.
•  The attendance of lawmakers was not available to the observers and media.

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This daily factsheet is based on direct observation of the KP Assembly proceedings conducted by the United Rural Development Organization (URDO) – a member organization of FAFEN. Errors and omissions are excepted