The joint opposition in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday staged walked out to protest against the attitude of the chair for not allowing one of their members to raise the ongoing issue of load shedding in one of the shortest proceedings of the House.
The parliamentary leader of Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Abdul Akbar Khan, who was chairing the proceedings, was very quick to adjourn the Session for two days. The House will now resume proceedings on Wednesday. The JUI-F legislator from district Karak, Malik Mhattak, wanted to take up the issue of the ongoing load shedding in the House, but the Speaker suggested them to raise the issue through an adjournment motion so that the government could also prepare a detail reply.
The other members of JUI-F, PML-N and PPP-S also joined the protesting members but before they could leave the House, the Speaker adjourned the Session leaving other legislators to guess it was one of the shortest sessions wherein the chair disposed almost all the questions and day agenda. Earlier the Minister for Food on behalf of the Minister for Higher Education presented the Regional Languages Authority Bill, 2011, in the House.
Later talking to reporters, Minister for Education, Sardar Hussein Babak, recalled that the Awami National Party (ANP) had promised to the people during election campaign to impart education in mother languages.
He said that government had fulfilled its commitment with the people by presenting the mother languages bill, which would be passed. He said that some people were apprehending that the ANP would pass the bill for Pushto language but now they had witnessed that the Bill would introduce all the mother languages.
Minister for Education termed it a historic decision, which would promote all mother languages and there is no doubt that there are some problems in it because some languages have no grammar books. He said the government is in contact with the experts, poets and writers of such languages and overcome the existing problems. He recalled his party's elders have been striving for the provincial autonomy and now they have the right on their own resources after the passage of 18th Amendment.
He said the people have rendered great sacrifices against militancy and they wanted to educate their children. He said it would bring positive results once the entire nation decides so. He said the government has deputed security forces in some of the government buildings and schools but now most of such buildings have been vacated. He said the remaining buildings would also be vacated at a proper time. Sardar Hussein Babak said that the government has decided to impart education to children through public private partnership in all those Union Councils having no government schools. He said the government would bear the expenses and they have selected two districts including DIKhan and Bunir in initial stage.