Sindh has a constitutional right to fulfill its own gas needs first; MPA tells Sindh Assembly

Sindh has a constitutional right to fulfill its own gas needs first; MPA tells Sindh Assembly

Karachi: (Tuesday, January 03, 2012) Heer Soho, an MPA of MQM, while addressing the Sindh Assembly today said Sindh’s gas production far exceeded its needs, and constitutionally, it was right of the province to fulfill its own
needs first before giving it to other parts of the country.

The legislator, by presenting figures, said out of total gas available in the country, 73 per cent comes from Sindh, while the province’s own needs for it amounted to mere 44 per cent of the production.

Replying to the MPA, Mr. Nisar Ahmed Khurho, the speaker provincial assembly said debate on the point could only be initiated if she would formally put forward a motion in the house, however, Soho refrained from persisting with
the issue further.

In another development in the house, minister for Law and Prisons Muhammad Ayaz Soomro told the House that the government had not hanged any prisoner since it came to power, nor did it intend to do so.

The minister said hangings had been a very emotional matter for the PPP, considering the fact that the party’s founder chairman had been hanged in 1979.

The minister said that a woman had been awarded a death sentence recently. He hoped that the prisoner would soon approach the president with a mercy petition.

Moving on from the subject of hanging, Soomro dispelled the impression that the provincial ministers had been barred from visiting prisons uninformed.

He was responding to a query from Minister for Prices and Supplies Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari, who had said that even the ministers were not allowed to conduct “surprise visits” to the prisons in Sindh.

Bukhari pointed out that Minister for Health Dr Sagheer Ahmed was disallowed such a visit recently.

Soomro said that ministers and MPAs could conduct “surprise visits” to prisons, and if they could inform him before the visit, the government would even provide them with protocol.

Bukhari, dissatisfied with such a response, asked his colleague what would be the use of such a visit “if we informed you”.

Replying to questions and supplementary questions, the minister for jails said there were 18 foreign prisoners in Karachi and Hyderabad who had completed their sentences, but due to lack of travel documents, they were still languishing in jails.

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