Jamali was reported to be furious with education ministry bosses, in the last cabinet meeting, for tabling the bill bypassing the cabinet and parliamentary affairs ministry and directed Zobaida Jalal to withdraw the controversial bill from parliament during its proceedings on Monday.

This is for the first time in one year that the Jamali government is withdrawing a controversial International Student Bill, 2003, from Parliament to avoid embarrassment because of Zobaida’s ignoring the rules and procedure; each ministry is required to send a bill to the parliamentary affairs division that, after examining it, forwards it to the cabinet its for approval.

Sources told The News that the issue of bypassing the cabinet and parliamentary affairs division was brought into the notice of the Prime Minister, during the last cabinet meeting, who was at a loss to understand that how could the education minister could table the bill in the house without taking their required approval.

Zobada Jalal had moved a bill in parliament that sought direct admission of Pakistani origin based students, with simple matriculation, into professional medical and engineering colleges without doing their FSc. However the very educational condition for the Pakistani students stayed.

According to the sources Zobaida Jalal had met NA Speaker Ch Amir Hussain in his chamber and asked him to suspend the rules and procedures governing the method of tabling of bills in the House and allow her to table the bill without cabinet approval.

The NA speaker had, however, forwarded the bill to the committee to examine the bill, which was being tabled without adopting the formal channels. The bill was referred to the parliamentary affairs division to obtain its opinion on the controversial points and clauses raised by the committee member.