Welcome to the  Standing Committee on Education and Science & Technology home page.  The Committee was constituted in April 2004 and re-constituted in April 2006 in terms of Rule 140 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 1988. The Standing Committee has a strength of 12 Members. Four Members belong to the opposition parties while the rest are from the ruling party and its allies. The Standing Committee holds a notable membership of educational experts and eminent scholars. Senator Mrs. Razina Alam Khan heads the Committee as an elected Chairperson.

The Standing Committee of the Senate deals with subjects assigned, under the rules for the allocation and transaction of business of Government, to the Ministries or Divisions with which it is concerned or any other method referred to it by the Senate.

Any subject not so assigned or the subject assigned to any Ministry for which a standing Committee has not been constituted shall be dealt with by the standing Committee for the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.

Whenever there is any change in the composition of ministries or their nomenclature, the Chairperson shall in consultation with the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and the Minister concerned, issue suitable directions in regard to the reallocation of the existing standing committees or, as the case may be, the modification in their nomenclature and election of the new Standing Committee.

Chairperson

Senator Mrs.Razina Alam Khan  is the  Chairperson of the Committee. 

Members of the Committee

The Committee has eleven other members :

Senator Mrs. Tahira Latif
Senator Dr. Abdul Khaliq Pirzada
Senator Mrs. Rehana Yahya Baloch
Senator Col (R) Syed Tahir Hussain Mashhadi
Senator S.M. Zafar
Senator Syed Javed Ali Shah
Senator Mr. Ammar Ahmed Khan
Senator Dr. Muhammad Said
Senator Maulvi Agha Muhammad
Senator Mr. Sajid Mir
Senator Prof. Muhammad Ibrahim Khan

Secretary of the Committee:

Mr. Jamil A.Qureshi is the Secretary of the Committee.

Private Secretary:

Hafiz Abdul Rasheed  is the Private Secretary of Chairman Committee's office.