ISLAMABAD, January 20, 2016: The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution on Wednesday to condemn terrorist attack on Bacha Khan University Charsadda, says Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN).

Some key observations are as follows:

Members’ Participation in House Proceedings

• The Senate met for 4 hours and 31 minutes.
• The sitting started at its scheduled time of 1400 hours.
• The House had a break for 14 minutes.
• The Chairman presided over the entire sitting.
• The Deputy Chairman was present in entire sitting.
• The Leader of the House attended the entire sitting.
• The Opposition Leader attended the sitting for 3 hours and 6 minutes.
• Prime Minister did not attend the sitting.
• Twenty eight (29%) senators were present at the start and 32(33%) at the time of adjournment.
• Parliamentary leaders of PML-N, MQM, PkMAP, BNP-M and JUI-F were present.

Output

• The House unanimously adopted a resolution to condemn terrorist attack on Bacha Khan University Charsadda.
• The House adopted amendment in rules 173 (sub-rule 1) and 257 (insertion of new sub-rule after sub-rule 2).
• Chairman, Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development presented report on the Minimum Wages for Unskilled Workers (Amendment) Bill, 2015.

Representation and Responsiveness

• The Chair did not admit an adjournment motion for discussion regarding visits of Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff to Iran and Saudi Arabia.
• The House took up a Calling Attention Notice (CAN) regarding the recent acute shortage of wheat (flour) in Gilgit Baltistan.
• Nine starred questions appearing on the agenda were answered by the relevant departments while the Senators also raised 15 supplementary questions.

Order and Institutionalization

• Senators spoke on 39 Points of order (POs) for 167 minutes.
• Ten matters of public importance consumed sixteen minutes of the sitting’s time.

Transparency

• ‘Orders of the Day’ was available to the legislators, observers and public.

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This daily factsheet is based on direct observation of the Senate proceeding conducted by Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN). Errors and omissions are excepted.