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A total number of 87 National Assembly members were those who did not speak a single word for the last three years in National Assembly as per press reports. Some time back, a similar report was printed in a section of press about the Senators. In the last tenure of National Assembly also, there were some members, who were sitting idle for continuous five-year period without speaking a single word.
The people give mandate to them to present their problems in the Parliament with a view to getting it resolved and also make necessary law, but sorry to say overwhelming parliamentarians are chosen to sit idle in the house. This is an open betrayal to the mandate of masses.
I suggest that rules and regulations for the parliamentarians must be amended immediately so that our respected "deaf and dumb" law-makers must be ousted without any hesitations. The National Assembly Speaker as well as Senate Chairman should play a key role in formulating such rules for strict compliance as our parliament does not need such members. I also suggest that the Senate Chairman and speakers of the National as well as the provincial assemblies should release in public every three months the performance report of all parliamentarians collectively and individually.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2011

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