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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly passed on Tuesday The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection and Welfare Bill 2010 aimed at providing care, protection, maintenance, welfare, training, education, rehabilitation and reintegration to children at risk in the province.
A child, who has not attained the age of 18, at risk means an orphan, child with disabilities, child of migrant workers, child working or living on the street, child in conflict with the law and a child living in extreme poverty who is found begging.
Mufti Kifayatullah, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), proposed amendment to the Bill, arguing the Act may be called the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tahafuz wa Rifah Atfal Act 2010, while Dr Iqbal Din, member JUI-F, proposed the age limit should be 15 years instead of 18, which were both defeated in the House.
Besides, a joint amendment proposed by Abdul Akbar Khan, PPPP parliamentary leader, and JUI-F member Mufti Kifayatullah was accepted.
The House also passed The Provincial Motor Vehicles (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) (Amendment) Bill 2010. Under the new Act, “owners of motor vehicles to whom personalised numbers were issued, shall cease to display these number plates henceforth and shall start to display number plates provided to them under sub-section (6). An amount of Rs 25,000 received from each owner shall be refunded to them as per prescribed procedure.”
“Any person found using the number plate other than the one provided to him under sub-section (6) or a registration mark other than the one he is allowed to use under sub-section (8) shall be liable to a penalty of Rs 10,000 in violation of misuse of registration mark.”
The Prisons (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) (Amendment) Bill 2010 was also presented in the House.
During question hour, Minister for Irrigation Parvez Khan Khattak assured the House all irrigation schemes damaged by flash floods would be completed and asked the members to come forward and identify damaged schemes.
The minister said catastrophes would recur in future due to climatic changes and strategy be devised to tame rivers to save villages and infrastructure from devastation in coming years. Khattak proposed the House pass a resolution, demanding the federal government provide funds to strengthen dykes and river embankments to prevent flood ravages.
Journalists covering the proceedings in the press gallery walked out to protest the killing of Misri Khan, a journalist from Hangu, and Mujeebur Rehman Siddqui, a journalist from Dargai.
Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain told the House around 25 journalists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) had so far been killed by militants. He said the report on the murder of tribal journalist Hayatullah was ready and sealed and it should be published to unmask those involved in his killing to prevent such incidents in future. He expressed solidarity with journalists and offered dua for those killed.
A child, who has not attained the age of 18, at risk means an orphan, child with disabilities, child of migrant workers, child working or living on the street, child in conflict with the law and a child living in extreme poverty who is found begging.
Mufti Kifayatullah, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), proposed amendment to the Bill, arguing the Act may be called the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tahafuz wa Rifah Atfal Act 2010, while Dr Iqbal Din, member JUI-F, proposed the age limit should be 15 years instead of 18, which were both defeated in the House.
Besides, a joint amendment proposed by Abdul Akbar Khan, PPPP parliamentary leader, and JUI-F member Mufti Kifayatullah was accepted.
The House also passed The Provincial Motor Vehicles (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) (Amendment) Bill 2010. Under the new Act, “owners of motor vehicles to whom personalised numbers were issued, shall cease to display these number plates henceforth and shall start to display number plates provided to them under sub-section (6). An amount of Rs 25,000 received from each owner shall be refunded to them as per prescribed procedure.”
“Any person found using the number plate other than the one provided to him under sub-section (6) or a registration mark other than the one he is allowed to use under sub-section (8) shall be liable to a penalty of Rs 10,000 in violation of misuse of registration mark.”
The Prisons (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) (Amendment) Bill 2010 was also presented in the House.
During question hour, Minister for Irrigation Parvez Khan Khattak assured the House all irrigation schemes damaged by flash floods would be completed and asked the members to come forward and identify damaged schemes.
The minister said catastrophes would recur in future due to climatic changes and strategy be devised to tame rivers to save villages and infrastructure from devastation in coming years. Khattak proposed the House pass a resolution, demanding the federal government provide funds to strengthen dykes and river embankments to prevent flood ravages.
Journalists covering the proceedings in the press gallery walked out to protest the killing of Misri Khan, a journalist from Hangu, and Mujeebur Rehman Siddqui, a journalist from Dargai.
Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain told the House around 25 journalists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) had so far been killed by militants. He said the report on the murder of tribal journalist Hayatullah was ready and sealed and it should be published to unmask those involved in his killing to prevent such incidents in future. He expressed solidarity with journalists and offered dua for those killed.
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