Senate session starts

ISLAMABAD: Senate session started here Friday at the Parliament House with recitation of verses from the Holy Quran. Chairman Senate Mohammadmian Soomro was in the chair.

In the very onset, Soomro announced the panel of chairmen including senators, Dr Babar Awan, Azam Swati and Prof. Ibrahim Khan. They would chair the session in the absence ofthe Chairman in the order of precedence.

Meanwhile, the Business Advisory Committee of the Upper House of the Parliament met here under the Chairmanship of Muhammedmian Soomro. Parliamentary leaders and representatives of all political parties having representation in the Senate attended the meeting.

Senator Ilyas Bilour of the Awami National Party (ANP), while talking to state news agency, said that the meeting decided that the House would conduct discussion on the President Asif Ali Zardari's address to the Joint Session of the Parliament. The House would also discuss the prevailing law and order situation across country, he added.

Minister for Law Farooq H. Naek, Senator Raza Rabbani of PPP, Nisar Memon of PML-Q, Haji Muhammad Adeel of ANP, Ilyas Bilour of ANP, Rehmatullah Kakar of
JUI-F, Prof. Khurshid Ahmed of MMA, Syed Akbar Shah and Israrullah Zehri of BNP, and Shahid Hassan Bugti of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) also attended the meeting, said Ilyas Bilour