Ruckus in K-P Assembly over PTI lawmaker’s remarks about women members

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) apportion for Public Health Engineering Shah Farman. PHOTO: PPI/FILE

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly witnessed an conflict on Tuesday dusk when a member of a book upheld pornographic remarks about women lawmakers of a antithesis bench.

During a contention on water-related issues, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) minister for Public Health Engineering Shah Farman said, “There are 36 departments in a supervision though if a women (lawmakers) had usually water-related issues in their constituencies afterwards they should accommodate me alone.”

The remarks caused a ruckus in a House, forcing a emissary orator to adjourn a sitting though completing a agenda.

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) lawmaker Nighat Orakzai asked Farman to apologize and redress his remarks. However, instead of apologising, Farman told a Orakzai “look during your nauseous face” when a latter protested against the former’s remarks.

It began when a lawmakers were protesting opposite a non-allocation of supports for women members and those belonging to minorities. According to Orakzai, a obligatory supervision had singular growth supports to masculine lawmakers and those belonging to book benches.

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“We were reserved developmental schemes in a powerful projects though now we are not removing any schemes for a constituencies implemented due to miss of funds,” she said.

The lawmakers walked in front of supervision benches holding placards opposite unsymmetrical placement of developmental supports and ignoring women in a funds.

The supervision faced serious critique from a antithesis benches when a PPP lawmaker Fakhar Azam told a residence that district Nowshera’s share in a developmental supports was some-more than a common supports earmarked for a 7 southern districts including Tank, Dera Ismail Khan, Lakki Marwat, Bannu, Kohat, Hangu and Karak.

Nowshera alone, he added, had been given Rs4.56 billion developmental supports while all a 7 southern districts perceived usually Rs3billion. He serve pronounced that 9 districts – where a supervision had majority of votes – had been given Rs16.52 billion, while a rest of a 16 districts had been given usually Rs5.46 billion funds.

Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1399308/ruckus-k-p-assembly-pti-lawmakers-remarks-women-members/