A joint sitting of Parliament convened for today (Thursday) after the tragic demise of PTI MNA Aamir Liaquat Hussain.
Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has deferred the session till 5 PM on Friday. The session was supposed to discuss national issues, especially the deteriorating state of the economy and political crisis.
According to details, President Dr Arif Alvi had convened a joint sitting of Parliament for which a 12-point agenda was released. A joint sitting of the National Assembly and the Senate was convened in the Parliament House Islamabad in which a large number of members of the National Assembly and Senators were expected to participate.
It is to be noted that before the arrival of the budget, the senators of the former ruling party PTI were also expected to participate in the joint sitting of the parliament while the party’s MNAs have resigned.
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PTI objects session
PTI Senator leader Faisal Javed has said that party’s senators would not participate in parliament’s joint session.
The PTI leader took to Twitter and said that the electoral reforms bill to be presented and passed in the parliament’s joint session today will deprive overseas Pakistanis of their right to vote.
He added the NAB reforms bill’s purpose will give a new NRO to the ‘imported government’.
He said that the abolishment of electronic voting machine (EVM) would raise doubts about the result in upcoming elections.
The bills have been passed from the National Assembly and the Senate, but the President returned them for review after raising objections.
The president advised the parliamentary committees to review both the bills saying there were passed in a hurry. The joint session of parliament was convened so the bill can be approved without the president’s nod.
