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The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has taken notice of its MNAs that didn’t attend the session on budget voting.
Twelve MNAs were absent from the session. Six MNAs had informed the party that they won’t be able to attend while six others just didn’t show up.
Party sources said that show-cause notices will be issued to members who failed to give a good reason for their absence.
MNAs who didn’t attend the session include Chaudhry Abid Raza Kotla,
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June 30, 2021
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ISLAMABAD: While the deadlock between the government and opposition parties over the 30 bills unilaterally passed by the National Assembly prevails, there seems to be no urgency in convening even the inaugural meeting of the newly constituted bipartisan parliamentary committee to revisit the rushed legislation.
The 20-member panel was created a week ago by Speaker Asad Qaiser after consultation with the government and opposition parties. “It is just eyewash. The government is not pushed about holding meaningful and productive talks on revisiting the two particular bills that inserted dozens of amendments in the Elections Act, 2017,” former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told The News when contacted. He said that the speaker has not approached the opposition parties to hold the first meeting of the Committee on Legislative Business, showing his lack of sincerity to review these bills which were bulldozed in the National Assembly controlled by the ruling coal
No urgency to convene legislative committee to revisit electoral reforms
June 30, 2021
ISLAMABAD: While the deadlock between the government and opposition parties over the 30 bills unilaterally passed by the National Assembly prevails, there seems to be no urgency in convening even the inaugural meeting of the newly constituted bipartisan parliamentary committee to revisit the rushed legislation.
The 20-member panel was created a week ago by Speaker Asad Qaiser after consultation with the government and opposition parties.
“It is just eyewash. The government is not pushed about holding meaningful and productive talks on revisiting the two particular bills that inserted dozens of amendments in the Elections Act, 2017,” former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told The News when contacted.