While talking to Media Representatives on the sideline of event " Policy Dialogue on Climate Smart Agriculture and Food Security: Challanges and Way forward for Pakistan" organized by PIPS in collocation with Syngenta in Islamabad today, Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that elections across the country should be on the same day and Parliament is read to play its role in this regard. He said , " Parliament is the only place where struggle for democracy would succeed."He also said that consensu and dialogue is the only option for all political parties to lead country out of Socio-economic challanges and Parliament is ready to develop consensus and dialogue among all political stakeholders in this perspective. He also said that holding elections is the shared responsibility of three stakeholder i.e.ECP , incumbent government and all political parties and these three stakeholders should develop consensus in this regard In a response to another query of journalist regarding hike is support prizes of Wheat for farmers, he said that cost of agricultural inputs need to be rationalized to control this trend. Earlier, Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that Pakistan is the least contributor to global warming but the worst effecteee of global climate challange. He said that climate Change , food security and sustainable agriculture are strongly interlinked He also said that Pakistan has been facing sever impacts of climate change like drought, forest fires and recent devastating floods. The Speaker said , " Pakistani nation has been successfully grappling these challenges and will emerge victorious out of present challanges." Furthermore, he also praised the role and support academia and intelligentias for upgrading policy options. Speaker Raja Pervez Ahsrf has said that Pakistan is a blessed state with all human resources and natural blessings. He said that Pakistani diaspora is playing pivotal role for finding new ways of transforming agriculture as per climate change. He said that these are our agriculture scientists who can invent new seeds, new techniques for growing agricultural production. "Parliament perform a critical role in democratic society as the institution that represents and aggregates citizen interests in the drafting and scrutiny of legislation and oversight of the executive branch. Parliamentarians are uniquely placed to ensure the effective ratification of international climate change treaties and implementation of the Paris Agreement" said Speaker NA MS.Shahda Rehmani General Secretary Women Parliamentary Cacus was also present on the occasion.
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