ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has constituted a four member Sub-committee of the Special Committee on Disabled Persons with MNA Ms Munaza Hassan as the convener of the Committee.
MNAs Ms Kishwar Zehra, Ms Zille Huma and Ms Maleeka Ali Bokhari would be its members. Two members of the Special committee MNAs Shaheen Naz Saifullah and Ms Farukh Khan would be associated with the Sub-Committee as Special Invitees.
As per the Terms of the Reference (TORs), the Sub-Committee has been mandated to review the existing laws related to Persons With Disabilities (PWDs), to review the best international practices, to suggest legislative measures and amendments required for the welfare of PWDs and any other business remitted by Special Committee on disabled persons.
According to a statement issued here on Wednesday by the National Assembly Secretariat, the Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser constituted the first ever Special Parliamentary Committee on PWDs as the incumbent government is striving hard to make policies for the betterment of PWDs.
The Speaker believed in the legislative measures to support the PWDs to enable them to be part of socio-economic main strata. This committee would support the legislative measures for the welfare of the PWDs. The Sub-Committee will present its report to the Special Committee on Disabled Persons within thirty days.