MUZAFFARABAD, March 6: Azad Kashmir government (AJK) on Saturday accused the opposition of misusing the constitutional right to convene the Legislative Assembly session and ignoring constructive role for betterment of parliamentary system and progress of the region.
The accusation came as the opposition submitted another requisition to convene the LA session only a day after it was prorogued sine die by the speaker amid a walkout by the opposition benches.
Speaking at a press conference, AJK Minister for Information Sardar Farooq Ahmed Tahir asserted that the government respected the opposition, but alleged it was showing non-seriousness towards its actual role.
“The opposition has some very senior parliamentarians and it is the earnest desire of the government that it should play a positive and constructive role within and outside the assembly,” he said.
Of the earlier session, he recalled that when the house could not proceed in accordance with the agenda on the first two days (February 25-26), representatives of treasury and opposition benches sat together on March 5 and worked out a strategy to dispose of the agenda items.
Justifying the prorogation of the session by Speaker Shah Ghulam Qadir, he said it was because the opposition was itself not interested in its continuity for a serious debate.
The minister said the session had cost millions of rupees to the cash-strapped region without any output and laid the blame on the opposition for this. The ruling Muslim Conference, it may be recalled, split in January 2009 which led to the ouster of the then prime minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan.— http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/opposition-in-ajk-accused-of-flippancy-730
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