Islamabad:

The National Assembly’s speeches Ayaz Sadiq on Friday expressed regret over the opposition’s walkout from the procedure in the parliament’s lower house and subsequently pointed out a lack of decision -making that led to the postponement of the meeting.

The speaker stated that the opposition chose to go out of the house at a time when important questions were on the agenda. He emphasized that most of the questions at the questioning time of the questioning time were presented by opposition members.

“It is disappointing that the opposition chose to go out during the procedure when Parliament discussed important national issues,” he said. “It is regrettable that the opposition distances itself from parliamentary core responsibility,” he added.

The speaker said 30 members participated in a debate on water channels, but most of the opposition parties, except for Jamiat Jui-F were absent that day. Due to a shortage of decision -making on Friday, Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah session exposed to Monday.

Sadiq also stated that PPP had submitted a decision on the channel question on April 7 and the case was discussed in detail the same day. However, another similar decision was again presented by the opposition on April 10.

The speaker by tackling the broader concerns that the opposition parties were traveling continued that those who often talked about issues such as Palestine and border security did not appear to emerge as these issues were planned for debate in parliament.

The National Assembly Session started with speaker Ayaz Sadiq in the chair. However, sitting was interrupted when Iqbal Afridi from Sunni Itthad Council (SIC) pointed out the lack of decision -making. The session was suspended for 30 minutes and postponed later due to insufficient participation.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Energy informed the house in a written reply that “thanks to the government’s efforts”, the circular debt with RS9 billion during the first six months of the current financial year – from RS2,393 billion in June 2024 dropped to RS2,384 billion in December in December

The Ministry of Energy said that the recovery of power distribution companies (discos) had improved. The Ministry presented some aspects of the government’s strategic roadmap for 2025-29, including initiatives to identify power loss and real-time monitoring to find out the unauthorized consumption.

“To identify sites with high power losses, a computer -energy audit of distributors and transformers will be performed,” the answer reads. “An advanced measurement infrastructure system will be implemented for real -time monitoring and loss assessment to identify unauthorized consumption.”

The ministry said this strategy required all consumers to have electricity meters, and therefore consumers without them would need to have them installed. “The strategy includes recovery action against default holders that are permanently disconnected in accordance with the law of land revenue [and] And the area giant giant teeth will be installed in areas with theft of high power, ”the Ministry of Energy wrote.

The ministry added that pipe wells under the government’s strategy would be solarized to reduce the dependence on net electricity and a recovery scheme would be introduced for local administrations and discos to collect arrears.