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101 lawmakers attend less than half of sittings Attendance remains higher in shorter sessions while lower in longer sessionsAverage annual attendance the lowest during second parliamentary year
Lawmakers’ interestin National AssemblyShows Declining Trend
Overall AttendanceThe 14th National Assembly completed its third parliamentary year on May 31, 2016. It held 289 sittings in 32 sessions between June 1, 2013 and May 30, 2016. The attendance record of lawmakers was first made public on the National Assembly website in June 2015 at the outset of third parliamentary year. The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) acquired the attendance record of the Members of the National Assembly (MNA) for the first two parliamentary years through an information request to the National Assembly Secretariat. This report is based on the official attendance record and does not include the attendance of the Joint Sittings of Parliament and sitting held on May 31, 2016.
The Assembly held 99 sittings in the first parliamentary year, 92 in the second and 98 in the third year. The highest attendance of MNAs was recorded during the first session of the 14th National Assembly followed by the third and 19th sessions which were single-sitting sessions. The third sitting of the first session witnessed the highest attendance when the election of the Prime Minister took place in the presence of 318 lawmakers. The fourth sitting of 18th session was the least attended with only 87 members were present.
The average attendance during each session of the National Assembly is shown in the graph below:
Average Attendance in National Assembly's Sessions
The annual average attendance of lawmakers witnessed a downward trend during the second parliamentary year. Each lawmaker, on average, attended 64 sittings during the first parliamentary year, 51 sittings during the second and 59 during the third. Similarly, an average of 222 MNAs attended each sitting during the first parliamentary year, 194 attended each sitting during the second parliamentary year and 208 attended each sitting during the third parliamentary year.
Average Attendance in each Parliamentary Year
1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year
222 194 208
311
246
291
196
221 214206
240
216203
225239
255
180196
175184 186
270
172189
245233
199
235
159
200 196207
197
223231
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
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Session
Key Members' Attendance
National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq attended 245 sittings during three years while Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi was present in 237 sittings. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attended 39 sittings during three years - nine each in first and third parliamentary year and 21 in second parliamentary year. Leader of the Opposition Syed Khursheed Shah attended 221 sittings.
Deputy SpeakerSpeaker Leader of the OppositionPrime Minister
245 237 39 221Sittings Sittings Sittings Sittings
Ministerial AttendanceAs many as 26 cabinet members – 17 Federal Ministers and 9 Ministers of State – are Members of the National Assembly. Each Minister, on average, attended 172 sittings during three parliamentary years. Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmad was present during 285 sittings and the most regular minister in the National Assembly. He is the second most regular lawmaker during the past three years. Nine other cabinet members attended more than 200 sittings. Two federal ministers Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi and Ahsan Iqbal attended 80 and 99 sittings, respectively.
More than half of the ministers remained absent from as many as 54 sittings while there were only four sittings when all 26 ministers were present.
Sheikh Aftab Ahmed
285
Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada Usman Ibrahim
256 227
Muhammad Barjees Tahir
223
Abdul Qadir Baloch
222SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Least Regular Members
Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar
9
Imran Khan M. Hamza Shehbaz Sharif
18 22
Faryal Talpur
26
Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
39
PML-N PML-NPTI PPPPPPPP
Less than half of the members were present in 38 out of 289 sitting. As many as 101 lawmakers (29%) attended less than half (145) of the sittings. Prominent members including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his nephew Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, parliamentary leaders of PTI Imran Khan, MQM Farooq Sattar, JUI-F Fazl-ur-Rehman and PML Pervaiz Elahi attended less than half of the 289. The following table shows the list of 20 members with lowest attendance:
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Ch. Parvez Elahi
40
Ch. Muhammad Asim Nazir Malik Asad Sikandar
42 45
Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali
47
Roshan Din Junejo
48
PML-N PML-NPPPP PPPP
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
PML
Amir Haider Khan
51
Malik Iqbal Mehdi Khan Dr. Fehmida Mirza
54 55
Dr. M. Farooq Sattar
56
Syed Mustafa Mehmood
60SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
ANP PML-N PPPP PPPPMQM
Reeta Ishwar
61
Muhammad Zain Ellahi Fazal-Ur-Rehman
66 67
Sardar M. Jafar Khan Leghari
72
Sardar Kamal Khan Bangulzai
73SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
PML-F IND JUI-F PML-N NP
Female Lawmakers’ Attendance
There are 70 female lawmakers in the National Assembly – 60 on reserved seats, nine elected and one minority. Nearly 77% women lawmakers attended half or more sittings. Each woman lawmaker, on average, attended more sittings than their male counterparts. A woman lawmaker, on average, attended 70 sittings during the first parliamentary year, 54 in the second year and 67 in the third year. On average, a male lawmaker attended 62, 51 and 57 sittings during these years. Aliya Kamran from JUI-F remained the most regular lawmaker. The average attendance of male and female lawmakers is given in the graph below:
6255 60
45 50 50 46 51 48 46 51 54 5440 42 37 41 42
58
40 4151 54
4356
3950 45 50 46 48 53
249
191
231
151
172165 160
189
168158
175186
201
140155
139 143 145
212
132
148
194179
156
179
121
150 151158
151
175178
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
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Gender Average
Female Average Male Average
Minority Lawmakers’ Attendance
Aasiya Nasir
258
Khalil George Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani
252 227
Lal Chand Malhi
203
Ramesh Lal
201
Dr. Darshan
191
Sanjay Perwani Isphanyar M. Bhandara
184 178
Bhawan Das
155
Tariq Christopher Qaiser
124
JUI-F PML-N PML-N PTI PPPP
MQMPML-N PML-N PML-N PML-N
There are ten lawmakers elected on seats reserved for religious minorities. Half of them attended more than 200 sittings during three parliamentary years. Each minority lawmaker, on average, attended 197 sittings which is much higher than overall average of other lawmakers i.e. 168.
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Political PartiesAttendance
Sheikh Aftab Ahmed Begum Tahira BukhariKiran Haider Sardar Mumtaz Khan Rana Shamim Ahmed Khan
285 284 281 279 270
1 2 3 4 5
Most Regular Members
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz(189 MNAs)
PML-N
7 8
37
5662
19
Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader
Muhammad Nawaz Sharif39
Sittings
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
Musarat Rafique Mahesar
257
1 2 3 4 5
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian(46 MNAs)
PPPP
Shahida Rehmani Abdul Sattar Bachani Nafisa Shah Shamas-un-Nisa
257 255 241 227
5 5
12 12
9
3
Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader*
Makhdoom Amin Fahim (Late)34
* The lawmaker died on November 21, 2015. The party did not nominate another parliamentary leader.
Sittings
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Most Regular Members
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
Siraj Muhammad Khan
233
1 2 3 4 5
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Salim Rehman Dr. Shireen Mazari Gulzar Khan Ali Muhammad Khan
213 211 210 207
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(34 MNAs)
PTI
2 1
5
1511
0Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader
Imran Khan18
Sittings
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Most Regular Members
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
M. Muzammil Qureshi
217
1 2 3 4 5
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Sajid Ahmed Syed Asif Hasnain Shaikh Salahuddin Mehboob Alam
216 210 209 207
Muttahida Qaumi Movement(24 MNAs)
MQM
21
5
79
0Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader
Dr. M. Farooq Sattar57
Sittings
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Most Regular Members
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
Aliya Kamran
287
1 2 3 4 5
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Naeema Kishwar Khan Aasiya Nasir Shahida Akhtar Ali Muhammad Jamal Ud Din
284 258 253 233
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)(13 MNAs)
JUI-F
0
1 1
3 3
4
Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader
Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman67
Sittings
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Most Regular Members
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
Bismillah Khan
248
1 2 3 4 5
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Bilal Rehman Shah Jee Gul Afridi Syed Ghazi Gulab Jamal Jamshaid Ahmad Dasti
219 210 153 136
Independents(9 MNAs)
IND
0
2
3
1
3
0Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader
Dr. Ghazi Gulab Jamal153
Sittings
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
Most Regular Members
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
Syed Kazim Ali Shah
161
1 2 3
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Ghous Bux Khan Mahar Pir Bux Junejo
147 133
Pakistan Muslim League - Functional(5 MNAs)
PML-F
0
2 2
1
0 0Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader
Pir Syed Saddaruddin Shah80
Sittings
SittingsSittingsSittings
Most Regular Members
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
Naseema Hafeez Panezai
266
1 2
Most Regular Members
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Abdul Qahar Khan Wadan
226
Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party(4 MNAs)
PkMAP
0 0 0 0
2 2
Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader
Mahmood Khan Achakzai228
Sittings
SittingsSittings
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
Sher Akbar Khan
269
1 2
Most Regular Members
SITTINGS
ME
MB
ER
S
Aisha Syed
260
Jamat-e-Islami (4 MNAs)
JI
0 0 0 0
2 2
Less than 50 50 - 99 100 - 149 150 - 199 200 - 249 250+
Parliamentary Leader
Sahibzada Tariqullah229
Lawmakers’ Attendance Patterns
Sittings
SittingsSittings
Smaller Parliamentary Parties’ Attendance
Usman Khan Tarrakai
175
Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad Ghulam Ahmad Bilour
185 139
Amir Haider Khan
51
Iftikhar Ud Din
224
Syed Essa Nori
99
Sardar Kamal Bangulzai Shahjehan Munir Mangerio
73 235
Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi
141
Ch. Tariq Bashir Cheema
109
Ch. Parvez Elahi
40
Muhammad Ijaz-Ul-Haq Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao
181 198
BNP
AMLP
NP
APMLAJIP ANP ANP
NPP NPP PML
PML PML-Z QWP-S
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
SittingsSittingsSittingsSittingsSittings
SittingsSittingsSittings
This report is based on the information shared on the website of the National Assembly and acquired from the National Assembly Secretariat through information requests. Every effort has been made to
keep this report accurate and comprehensive. Errors and omissions are excepted.
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