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Capital buzzing on a Sunday as ‘constitutional package’ likely to be tabled in NA, Senate today
Nadir Guramani | Dawn.com Published September 15, 2024 Updated 5 minutes agoIn what is an unusual development for a Sunday, both the National Assembly and Senate sessions will convene today one after the other, with the highly anticipated but closely guarded ‘constitutional package’ expected to be on the agenda.
It is unusual for parliament to convene on a weekend, as it usually only happens in budget sessions or sittings convened for a specific, time-sensitive issue.
The package aims to fix the tenure of the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) at three years among other things.
Today’s NA session was initially slated for 11:30am but then changed to 4pm on a Special Parliamentary Committee’s request made to the NA speaker.
Similarly, the Senate session slated for 4pm was rescheduled to 7pm, according to a notification from the Senate secretariat.
Ahead of the parliamentary sessions, PML-N leader Khawaja Asif was confident that the government would secure the 224 votes needed to pass the amendment, adding that he was hopeful JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman would vote in its favour.
He refuted reports that the amendment was being introduced just to give an extension to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa.
“There no such talks of an extension being given to Qazi Faez Isa. Whatever judicial reforms will be brought, will be communal, not individual,” Asif said while speaking to the media in Islamabad.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar also denied that the proposed legislation was “person-specific”.
“No legislation will take place individually,” he said. “Whatever will happen will happen collectively, and for the greater good of the people,” Tarar said while speaking in Islamabad.
He also said that a session of the cabinet will be held soon over the matter.
Meanwhile, PPP Secretary General Nayyer Bokhari issued a letter to all the members of his party in the Senate and National Assembly to ensure their presence during the sessions and “vote as per directions of the party leadership”.
Capital buzzing on a Sunday as ‘constitutional package’ likely to be tabled in NA, Senate today
Lower house scheduled for 4pm yet to start, upper at 7pm; bill aims to fix CJP’s tenure at 3 years among other things; govt confident it has the numbers.
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Imran Khan from jail alone has brought the entire ruling elite to its knees. This “constitutional” package is the last ditch attempt to save themselves from complete and utter annihilation.
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