Sitting on 27th March 2024

Session No.

5

Summoned by

Governor of the Punjab

Sitting No.

6

Day and Date of sitting

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Scheduled time

10:00 am

Commenced at

11.39 am

Adjourned at

04:18 pm

Total working time

4 Hours 39 Minutes

Presided by

Malik Zaheer Iqbal Channer, Deputy Speaker

Attendance

265

The sitting commenced with recitation from the Holy Qur’an and its Urdu translation, followed by Naat-e-Rasool-e-Maqbool ﷺ.

General discussion on Annual Budget for the year 2023-24, continued for the fifth and the last day. The members participated in discussion included: Mr Shuaib Ameer, Mr Ahsan Raza Khan, Mr Khayal Ahmad, Ms Salma Butt, Mr Khalid Zubair Nisar, Ms Tahseen Fawad, Mr Usama Asghar Ali Gujjar, Ms Amina Hassan, Mr Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar, Mr Muhammad Abdullah Warraich, Mr Shahid Javed, Ms Rukhsana Kausar, Mr Hassan Zaka, Mr Ahmad Mujtaba Chaudhary, Mr Usama Fazal, Mr Jam Aman Ullah, Malik Lal Muhammad, Chaudhry Muhammad Tariq, Chaudhry Naeem Ejaz, Mr Muhammad Ansar Iqbal, Mr Muhammad Naeem Safdar, Mr Ali Asif, Mr Tariq Subhani, Mr Muhammad Atif Aurangzeb, Mr Shehryar Malik, Mr Amin Ullah Khan, Mr Jaffar Ali Hocha, Mr Muhammad Awais, Rana Muhammad Saleem, Mr Hassan Ali, Mr Abdul Aziz Khan, Mr Muhammad Naeem, Mr Muhammad Saqib Khan, Mr Izzat Javaid Khan, Mr Khizer Hussain Mazari and Ms Zaib Un Nisa Awan.

Mr Mujtaba Shuja Ur Rehman, Minister for Finance, concluded discussion on budget. In his wind-up speech, he thanked Members who participated in the discussion and media for highlighting salient features of the budget. He apprised the House that the current budget would kick start economy and it would strengthen the value of rupee.

The House was adjourned to meet on Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 10:00 am.