Youth Standing Committees present their Policy Recommendations in the House for Debate
Islamabad, September 16; Standing Committees of Youth Parliament Pakistan
put forward their Policy Recommendations in the House for debate on
the third of the 5-day Session.
The four Youth Standing Committees of the 7th Youth Parliament Pakistan:
Youth Standing Committee on National Security & Foreign Relations,
Youth Standing Committee on Finance, Youth Standing Committee on Political
& Electoral System and Youth Standing on Governance presented their
workings on their respective Reports.
Recommendations on Pakistan’s National Action Plan (December
2014): What is the State of its Implementation and Possible Proposals
for Effective Implementation & Oversight was presented
by Youth Standing Committee on National Security & Foreign Relations
Members Mr. Talal Mustahsan
Raza (YP3-37-PUNJAB26), Ms.
Shahana Khan (YP3-53-ICT01) and Ms.
Mariya Farheen (YP3-46-SINDH07).
The Members pressed on the establishment of Special Courts, Assurance
of minimum use of armed militia in the country, strengthen and activation
of NACTA, countering hate speech, regulation & registration of Medrassahs,
ban on glorification of terrorism and terrorist organisations in print
and electronic media and taking Karachi Operation to its logical conclusion.
Mr. Muhammad Adnan
(YP3-27-PUNJAB16) Chairperson, Youth Standing Committee on Electoral
Reforms and Political System presented his report recommendations on
‘Is Pakistan more suited to adopt the Proportional Representation
(PR) Electoral System vs. the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) Electoral System:
Rationale & Proposals’. Some of the recommendations
proposed by the Members were: extension of days for scrutiny from 7-20
(Representation of Public Act), State institutes should help ECP in
security procedure, Strengthening of Local Governments, bio-metric system
to be experimented in by-elections.
Ms. Marina Marri
(YP3-45-SINDH06) Chairperson of Youth Standing Committee on Finance
proposed suggestions on ‘Pakistan’s Extended Fund
Facility (EFF) Plan with the IMF and its Short-Term and Long-Term Economic
Impact on Pakistan’, while
Mr. Abdul Shakoor Kakar (YP3-02-BALOCHISTAN02)
put forward his Committees’ recommendations on ‘What
are the best International models for measuring Quality of Governance
and why?’
Members of Youth Parliament Pakistan were educated on the working of
the Parliament by veteran Parliamentarian Honourable Syed Naveed
Qamar, MNA (NA-222, Hyderabad-V, PPPP), Chairman National Assembly
Standing Committee on Railways. In a question answer session, young
Parliamentarian Ms. Zoha
Khalid (YP3-54-ICT02) proposed to introduce Parliamentary
Studies in universities delivered by experts.
Moreover, Mr. Nohman Ishtiaq, Public Finance Expert
delivered a lecture on ‘The Budget process in Pakistan’
while Ambassador (Retd.) Masood Khan, Director General,
Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad briefed the young Parliamentarians
on ‘Foreign Policy of Pakistan with special emphasis
on its neighbours’.
60 Members of the 7th Youth Parliament Pakistan are taking part in
a 5-day Session in Islamabad.
The Youth Parliament Pakistan is an initiative conceived, planned
and facilitated by PILDAT.
The 7th Youth Parliament Pakistan is supported by the Danish International Development Agency, Government of Denmark as recognition of the importance of young people's involvement in democracy and democratic practices.
