Sunday, April 17, 2016
Kabul (BNA) The Afghan lawmakers have unanimously voted to ban lawmaker Ghulam Sakhi Mashwani from parliament sessions for a period of at least 10 days after he assaulted on Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Nasir Ahmad Durani, during an enquiry session here last week.
The decision to ban Mashwani from parliament sessions was announced by Zahir Qadir during the general session of the Lower House of Parliament, Wolesi Jirga yesterday. The lawmakers have also called on Mashwani to apologize from the second secretary of the house for his move.
This comes as the lawmakers were mulling to suspend Mashwani’s membership from the house for a period of at least a year. Mashwani representing eastern Kunar province in Lower House of the parliament and assaulted on face of Nasir Ahmad Durani after picking the sign of his name from his table.
The incident took place during the general session of the parliament where the Minister of Rural Rehabilitation Development was summoned along with the Minister of Finance and Minister of Public Works to brief the lawmakers. The lawmakers present in the session were shocked with Mashwani’s move and called it against the principles of the session and decided to take actions against him after he was taken out of the session by the security guards.
