NA Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq presides 1st meeting of the PIPS Board of Governors

ISLAMABAD, July 11 (SABAH): Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said that the goal of establishing the Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary  Services (PIPS)was to assist and support parliamentarians, especially in legislative matters. He added, ” Effective  and research-orientated public legislation is key to achieving national priorities and development.”  He expressed these views while addressing the 1st meeting  PIPS Board of Governors in Islamabad today.

While emphasizing the importance of PIPS as a research-orientated Legislative institution, he said “Promotion of cooperation between national and provincial legislative bodies is of pivotal  importance.” He, further, directed to conduct a financial and performance audit of the PIPS by a third party to maintain transparency and improve its performance of PIPS. In the meeting, deliberations were also held regarding making the Speakers of Azad Jammu &Kashmir Assembly and Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly permanent members of the Governing Board.

Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan, Sindh Assembly Speaker Awais Qadir Shah, Balochistan Assembly Speaker Abdul Khaliq Khan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati, Azad Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar and Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly Speaker Nazir  also participated in the meeting

Members of Parliament Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidari, Bilal Azhar Kayani, Wajiha Qamar, Khurshid Ahmed Junejo, Mehtab Akbar Rashidi,  Zartaj Gul, and Syed Aminul Haq were also present on the occasion.