PPP parliamentarian rebuffs woman MNA’s accusations
Agha Rafiullah laments National Assembly’s procedure for following such requests
PHOTO: National Assembly website
ISLAMABAD:
Lamenting the modus operandi for ensuring lower house decorum, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) lawmaker Agha Rafiullah on Friday rejected a fellow woman parliamentarian’s accusations of using insulting words for her during a session of the assembly on February 2.
Ruling party MNA Begum Shaheen Saifullah Toru had filed a written complaint to NA Speaker Asad Qaiser against the PPP MP for making alleged derogatory remarks during house proceedings.
The letter reads, during the Feb 2 NA session Rafiullah showed “behaviour, completely unbecoming” of an MNA.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Chaudhry Hamid Hameed has dared the National Assembly speaker to provide certain record of the proceedings so that he could answer a letter issued to him over alleged violation of the decorum of the lower house of parliament.
National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday issued a letter to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA from Karachi Faheem Khan. Photo courtesy NA website
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday issued a letter to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA from Karachi Faheem Khan, seeking an explanation from him for allegedly creating disturbance during the recent proceedings of the house.
“A letter under Rule 21 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National Assembly, 2007, has been issued to Faheem Khan over the unpleasant incident occurred during the assembly proceedings on Feb 23,” says an official announcement by the National Assembly Secretariat.
The session has been called at a time when a presidential reference on the same subject is still being heard by the Supreme Court and the Senate elections are merely two weeks away. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has convened a session of the upper house of parliament on Saturday morning (Feb 20) on the requisition of the opposition on a one-point agenda to discuss the controversial presidential ordinance promulgated by the government on Feb 6, seeking open Senate vote.
The session has been called at a time when a presidential reference on the same subject is still being heard by the Supreme Court and the Senate elections are merely two weeks away.
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