National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Thursday sent letters to parliamentary leaders of all parties to suggest names or inclusion in the proposed special committee to take up the resolution on the issue of French envoy’s expulsion. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Thursday sent letters to parliamentary leaders of all parties having representation in the National Assembly to suggest names of their members for inclusion in the proposed special committee of the house to take up the resolution on the issue of French envoy’s expulsion from Pakistan, which was tabled in the assembly on April 20 in line with the ‘agreement’ that the government reached with the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
PML-N’s chief whip in the National Assembly Murtaza Javed Abbasi sent the questionnaire with a letter to Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Khan. Photo courtesy NA Twitter
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday sent a questionnaire to the government asking it to respond to it immediately to enable it to prepare its own resolution in response to the one presented in the National Assembly on Tuesday on the issue of Namoos-i-Risalat and expulsion of the French envoy from the country.
PML-N’s chief whip in the National Assembly Murtaza Javed Abbasi sent the questionnaire with a letter to Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Khan, saying his party needed “clarifications and information” to prepare the joint resolution to be tabled in the house.
• PML-N, JUI-F seek to discuss agreement with TLP first
ISLAMABAD: The government in a dramatic way managed to present a resolution in the National Assembly on Tuesday on the issue of the French envoy’s expulsion from Pakistan over the publication of blasphemous caricatures in line with an ‘agreement’ with the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) amid a noisy protest by the opposition members belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F).
Speaker Asad Qaiser, however, did not put the resolution tabled by a ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker as a private member’s agenda for a vote after the opposition protested over the government move to bring it into the house without prior consultation with them and demanded a full-fledged debate on the issue of Namoos-i-Risalat (the sanctity of the Prophet).
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Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday asked the lawmakers to wait for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s address to the nation on television. DawnNewsTV
ISLAMABAD: Lashing out at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government over its “bad handling” of the protests held by the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), the opposition members on Monday lodged a noisy protest in the National Assembly when Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who had been directed by Speaker Asad Qaiser to make a policy statement on the situation after the clashes between the police and the TLP activists in Lahore, asked the lawmakers to wait for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s address to the nation on television.