ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat), which is a think tank that focuses on the political and public policy research and legislative strengthening, has issued a performance analysis of the provincial assemblies with the performance of the Sindh Assembly ranked the best at 68pc.
According to the research, which is based on the performance of the third parliamentary year from May 2015 to June 2016, the Balochistan Assembly has had the worst performance at 35pc, while Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tied for second place at 66pc.
The Sindh Assembly’s performance in regards to legislation is also the best with a score of 70pc. Members of the Sindh Assembly introduced the highest number of Private Members’ Bills at nine.
These bills are important indicators of performance as they reflect the use of the provision given to legislators to make laws in addition to those made by the Executive.
Balochistan has performed worst in its third year, with no private members bills introduced, says report
The other three provincial assemblies lagged behind with only one Private Member’s Bill introduced by the Punjab and KP assemblies each and none in the Balochistan Assembly in the year 2015-16.
Meanwhile, the Punjab Assembly has passed 46 laws in its third year, the Sindh Assembly passed 28 bills, 23 were passed in the Balochistan Assembly and 18 in KP.
The think tank says the KP Assembly is the only Pakistani legislature which is transacting all business in the house through computers.
The report also says that in its three years, the Balochistan Assembly has yet to elect all chairpersons for standing committees.
The Punjab Assembly has met for 193 working hours followed by the Sindh Assembly which met for 182 hours, the KP Assembly for 126 hours and the Balochistan Assembly for just 95 hours.
The report says the Sindh Assembly has performed best in the representation category with a score of 88pc.
The highest attendance of members was recorded in the Balochistan and Sindh assemblies at 34pc while attendance was worst in the Punjab Assembly with an average of 13pc of its 368 members attending.
Together, the former Chief Minister of Balochistan Dr Abdul Malik Baloch and the incumbent Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri have attended 59pc of the sittings during the year 2015-16. A close second was the attendance of the Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah at 51pc of the total sittings of the Sindh Assembly. The KP Chief Minister, Pervaiz Khattak, has attended 29pc of the KP Assembly’s sittings while the Punjab chief minister has only attended 5pc, which is just four of a total 75 sittings.
While the leader of the house in the Punjab Assembly had the lowest attendance, the opposition leader, PTI’s Mian Mehmoodur Rashid has attended 85pc of the sittings in 2015-16, the highest figure for any leader of the opposition in the provincial assemblies.
The opposition leader from the Sindh Assembly attended 73pc of the sittings, the attendance of the leader of opposition in Balochistan in 61pc while that of the KP opposition leader is 53pc.
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