ISLAMABAD: (Parliament Times) Sustainable Social Development Organization (SSDO) has organized a two-day capacity building workshop for the lawmakers of the Sindh Assmebly and bureaucrats for support of more comprehensive and goal-oriented legislation on extremism under National Action Plan.
More than 24 members of Sindh Assembly belonging to different political parties including MQM-Pakistan, PTI, Grand Democratic Alliance and senior officials of four different public bodies of the Sindh are participating in the two days’ workshop.
At the start of the workshop, Syed Kausar Abbas – Director SSDO – welcomed the participants and explained the objective and importance of the workshop. In his opening remarks, he said that basic responsibilities of the members are legislation for the welfare of the people and accountability of the public departments. He said that objective of the workshop is to enhance the capacity of the MPAs to oversight the implementation of the laws and build their capacity and understanding on extremism to find out ways how to curb extremism by legislation.
Pakistan is having very good legislations for every field of life but the problem is the implementation of these laws, said, Ali Imran – Member board of directors (BOD) at SSDO.
He maintained, the causes of the poor implementation of the laws includes lack of Sub-Ordinate legislation known as Rules and the lack of resources allocation for the implementation of these laws.
It is the responsibility of the legislators to seek the performance and implantation reports from the public bodies to oversight the implementation of the laws, Ali added.
Inayat Ullah Lak, Director General at Parliamentary Affairs and Research in Punjab Assembly – briefed the participants about the oversight tools and procedures in the provincial assembly of Sindh. He explained the difference and importance of the assembly and government business rules and encourage the legislators to use their privilege including questions, adjournment motion, point of attentions for the accountability of the departments.
Syed Mohsin Abbas – Former Director Law at Government of Punjab – explained background and objectives of the National Action Plan and briefed the participants about the role of the elected representatives and public officials to counter the violent extremism at local level.