The PTI on Friday raised voice against the growing suicides in Thar region of the province during the Sindh assembly session, pointing out that 43 people took their lives 'amid poverty, malnutrition and growing health crisis". "As many as 43 people have committed suicide by mid-November 2018 in the desert area," said woman lawmaker of the PTI, Sidra Imran who raised the issue in her adjournment motion. The motion says that "it has been reported that a new but quite frightening and disturbing trend over the past few months in Thar has been touching the sky where the number of suicides has increased to an alarming level in 2018".
She was of the view that the suicide trend is on the rise in Thar because of the certain reasons that she mentioned in her adjournment motion and wanted the house to admit her move for a debate. But she failed to see the motion sail through as Sindh Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Kumar Chawla opposed it for against the rules.
The PTI's parliamentary leader, Haleem Adil Shaikh sought a ban on the free sales of pesticides and aluminium phosphates, citing a recent deadly incident in Karachi that left five children and a woman dead from the chemicals used in agriculture field. He also asked the concerned agriculture minister for steps taken to scale down the free sales of such chemicals.
In reply, Sindh Agriculture Minister, Ismail Rahu said that the deadly chemicals are banned worldwide. However, it is available here in the province, he cited that the recent deaths of children and a woman at Qasr-e-Naz where such pesticides were suspected to have been used excessively to kill insects. These chemicals should be kept away from the reach of everyone, he advised, saying that the government will take every possible action in the light of reports of the deceased.
PTI's Khurrum Sher Zaman Khan on a call of attention notice asked the government about the weeding out of stray dogs in the city's nearly all union councils. Saeed Ghani, Sindh Local Government Minister, said that the government has stopped killing stray dogs with poison and there is a plane it has introduced to vaccinate them to end their deadly bite affects. Killing dogs not a permanent solution, he added.
Aga Siraj Durrani, the Speaker Sindh Assembly, complained about the room he is kept in by the NAB officials, saying that confinement is improper for any inmate and against the human rights. The house will not meet on Monday at 2 pm.