{"id":79645,"date":"2018-11-12T19:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79645"},"modified":"2018-11-12T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T14:25:11","slug":"senate-discusses-govt-loans-electricity-gas-prices-recent-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=79645","title":{"rendered":"Senate discusses Govt loans, electricity, gas prices, recent protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-lg-8\">\n<div class=\"newsdetailcontent\">\n<p>Islamabad, Nov 12 (TNS): Senate today resumed debate on motions regarding terms and conditions of all types of loans taken by government, recent price hike in gas and electricity prices and recent Dharna.<\/p>\n<p>Taking part in the discussion, Senator Faisal Javed Khan said government is taking concrete steps to enhance exports of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said remittances have reached at its highest level. He said people of Pakistan demand accountability across the board. He said process of accountability will speed up.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition benches criticized the government for reaching an agreement with protesters to end the sit-in held in Islamabad and other parts of the country.They also criticized the government for selective accountability.<\/p>\n<p>They said government should fulfil the promises made during elections campaign. They said that loans from foreign countries will increase the inflation rate in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The House offered fateha for the departed soul of Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri Khan\u2019s mother who died on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen bills were introduced in the House.<\/p>\n<p>These include: \u201cThe Day Care Centres Bill, 2018\u201d, \u201c The Trained Paramedical Staff Facility Bill, 2018\u201d, \u201c The Board of Investment (Amendment) Bill, 2018\u201d, \u201cThe Ratification of Foreign Agreements by Parliament Bill, 2018,\u201d \u201cThe Exit from Pakistan (Control) (Amendment) Bill, 2018\u201d, \u201cThe SBP Banking Services Corporation (Repeal) Bill, 2018\u201d, \u201c The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2018 (Amendment of Article 11)\u201d, \u201c The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues (Amendment) bill, 2018\u201d, \u201cThe Foreign Private Investment (Promotion and Protection) (Amendment) Bill, 2018\u201d, \u2018The Banking Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2018\u201d, \u201cThe Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2018 (Amendment of Article 130)\u201d, \u201cThe State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill, 2018\u201d, \u201cThe Maternity and Paternity Leave Bill, 2018\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Chair referred the bills to the concerned committees of the House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-4\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov 12 (TNS): Senate today resumed debate on motions regarding terms and conditions of all types of loans taken by government, recent price hike in gas and electricity prices and recent Dharna. Taking part in the discussion, Senator Faisal Javed Khan said government is taking concrete steps to enhance exports of the country. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79646,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79645\/revisions\/79646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}