Bilawal nominated for standing committee on human rights

Bilawal nominated for standing committee on human rights

Islamabad (Staff Report): National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has finally constituted the remaining 36 standing and functional committees.

According to a notification issued by the NA secretariat, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has been nominated as a member of the committee on human rights.

The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs includes Mohsin Dawar (Independent), Hina Rabbani Khar (PPP), Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani (PPP), Maleeka Ali Bukhari (PTI), Makhdoom Zain Hasan Qureshi (PTI) and Syed Fakhar Imam (PTI) among others.

Former Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, Dr Aisha Ghaus Pasha, Naveed Qamar and Hina Rabbani Khar have been given standing committee on finance and revenue.

Former state information minister Maryam Aurangzeb and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s Aminul Haque are nominated for the standing committee on information.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shahbaz Sharif, who is also the head of the PAC, has been nominated as a member of the NA committees on information and broadcasting and Kashmir affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan.