By Asim Shahzad
LAHORE: In the absence of the opposition in the Punjab Assembly, the government has suspended the rules and passed 14 laws rapidly, while a resolution against the cowardly attack on a bus by terrorists in Balochistan has been passed.
The bills passed include the Provincial Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill 2025 (Bill No. 25), Provincial Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill 2025 (Bill No. 43), The Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2025, Provincial Motor Vehicles Amendment Bill 2025 (Bill No. 45), Punjab Workers Welfare Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025, Companies Profits (Workers’ Participation) (Amendment) Bill 2025, Stamp (Amendment) Bill 2025, Provincial Employees Social Security (Amendment) Bill 2025, Punjab Arms (Amendment) Bill 2025, Punjab Judicial Academy (Amendment) Bill 2025, Punjab Fertilizer Control Bill 2025, Police Order (Amendment) Bill 2025, Punjab Financial Advisory Services Bill 2025, passed by majority vote.
The government approved all the bills with the presence of only fifty members in the house. The 14th bill was also passed by the house by suspending the rules for the approval of the Anti-Terrorism Punjab (Amendment) Bill 2025. The Anti-Terrorism Punjab (Amendment) Bill 2025 was passed by majority vote. The rules were suspended for important bills related to public interest. The motion to suspend the rules and regulations was moved by Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman. Thus, on the important day of the Punjab Assembly session, the government approved 14 draft laws by majority vote.
The Punjab Assembly unanimously passed a resolution condemning the cowardly terrorist attack in Khuzdar. The resolution was presented by Provincial Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman. The resolution stated that the House strongly condemns the terrorist incident and demanded that the terrorists be brought to justice. Signs of the enemy’s defeat in the Indo-Pak war have started to appear. Provincial Information Minister Uzma Zahid Bukhari, while expressing his views on the Khuzdar incident in the House, said that these are the same cowardly proxies of the enemy who recently attacked Pakistan and caused a lot of trouble.
These are the same proxies who carry out cowardly acts in Balochistan and other parts of the country on the orders of India. After completed the agenda the session of the Punjab Assembly has prorogued.
