In this file photo, Babar Awan meets Imran Khan at the PM Secretariat — Photo courtesy Fahad Chaudhry
ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has accused the government of committing contempt of court by introducing legislation in parliament through an unelected adviser.
Speaking at a news conference at National Press Club here on Wednesday, PML-N MNA Mohsin Nawaz Ranjha particularly referred to the recently introduced Elections (Amendment) Bill 2020 by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan and termed the bill “unconstitutional and illegal”.
Mr Ranjha addressed the news conference hours after his party’s MNA Chuadhry Bashir Mehmood Virk raised the same objection during a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs that had been convened to take up the bills related to the election laws.