ISLAMABAD: National Assembly’s (NA) Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue is likely to elect regular chairperson in upcoming meeting.
The meeting will be held by end of this month in which members would elect the committee’s chairperson. Committee’s top seat is lying empty since disqualification of Umar Ayub Khan, who had headed the body for couple of years after the formation of PML-N government.
Standing Committee last meeting was chaired by MNA, Qaisar Ahmad Sheikh. He was elected chair of the committee meeting unanimously and was likely to be elected as regular chair during the next meeting.
The committee comprised of following 20 MNAs as members: leader Quami Watan Party-Sherpao (QWP-S) Aftab Khan Sherpao, Nasir Khan Khattak, Murad Saeed, Qaisar Ahmad Sheikh, Rana Shamim Ahmad Khan, Daniyal Aziz, Pervaiz Malik, Saeed Ahmad Khan, Sardar M Jafar Khan Laghari, Alam Dad Laleka, Sheikh Fayyaz Ud Din, Makhdoom Syed Mustafa Mehmood, Syed Naveed Qamar, Abdul Rashid Godil, M Ali Rashid, Ms Nafisa Shah, Leila Khan, Phyllis Azeem and the minister in-charge.
Talking to the privy, member standing committee said that committee could not perform up to mark in absence of chairperson. Therefore, the chair would be elected in on the earliest, he underscored.
It was also essential for committee as other committees, including, Cabinet Secretariat, Climate Change, Communication, Defence, Defence Production, Federal Education and Professional Training, Foreign Affairs, Housing and Works, Industries and Production, and others were operating under headships of regular chairpersons unlike the standing committee on finance and revenue which was also supposed to look after matters related to economic affairs, statistics and privatization.
