Speaker National Assembly Designates Conveners For 35 Parliamentary Friendship Groups
Wednesday, 28th November, 2018
Islamabad; November 28, 2018: The Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has stressed upon the need to expand cooperation and contacts with the parliaments across the globe through the platform of Parliamentary Friendship Groups (PFGs). The process of enrollment of membership for the Parliamentary Friendship Groups began with the passage of a Resolution by the National Assembly of Pakistan on September 24, 2018 through which 91 Parliamentary Friendship Groups were reactivated.
The Speaker National Assembly, in his capacity as ex-officio President of these Parliamentary Friendship Groups has appointed Conveners from among the membership of these Groups to look after the day-to-day business of the Forums.The PFGs are not only meant to foster coordination with the parliaments of the 91 friendly countries but also to expand the scope of cooperation from parliament-to-parliament interaction to essential people-to-people contacts.
With the above objective in mind, the Speaker National Assembly has designated 12 more Conveners of the Parliamentary Friendship Groups bringing the total number of Conveners to 35. The Conveners of the remaining 56 PFGs will be appointed once the groups complete required quorum.List of Conveners for Parliamentary Friendship Groups in the 15th National Assembly of the Pakistan as follows:
1. Sahibzada Sibghatullah Azerbaijan
2. Mr. Mehboob Shah Mayanmar
3. Prince Muhammad Nawaz Allai Qatar
4. Malik Anwar Taj Advocate Mauritius
5. Mr. Muhammad IqbalAfridi Nepal + Bhutan
6. NawabzadaIftikhar Ahmed Khan Babar Kuwait
7. Mir Amer Ali Khan Magsi Portugal
8. Mr. RazaRabaniKhar Malaysia
9. Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah Morocco
10. Mr. Zulfiqar Sattar Bachani Kenya
11. Ms. Shaista Pervaiz Maldives
12. Miss Shagufta Jumani Nigeria
Earlier,the Speaker National Assembly nominated 23 Conveners of different PFGs which were Mr.Muhammad Bashir Khan (Afghanistan), Mr. Ali Zahid (Algeria), Mr.Arbab Amir Ayub (Argentina), Ms. Marriyum Aurangzeb (Australia), Mr. Muhammad Aslam Bhootani (India), Agha Hassan Baloch (Bahrain), Chaudhary Mahmood Bashir Virk (Bangladesh), Mr. Muhammad Yaqoob Shaikh ( Belarus), Mr. Sher Ali Arbab (Belgium), Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada (Brazil), Mr. Sajid Khan (Brunei Darussalam), Mukhdoom Syed Sami-ul-Hassan Gillani (Bulgaria), Ms. Maleeka Bokhari (Chile), Mr. Noor Alam Khan (China), Mr. Riaz Fatyana (Cuba), Rao Muhammad Ajmal Khan (Denmark), Mr. Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh (DPR Korea), Mr. Nasir Khan Musa Zai (Egypt), Ms. Shandana Gulzar Khan (European Parliament), Mr. Amjid Ali Khan (France), Sardar Ayaz Sadiq (Germany), Ms. Nusrat Wahid (Greece) and Mr. Faiz Ullah (Iran).