PA approves Members Privileges Bill
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly session under chairmanship of Speaker Punjab Assembly Ch Parvaiz Elahi met here Tuesday.
On private members day in the House, the PMLN MPA from Mandi Bahauddin Sajid Ahmad Bhatti presented Privileges Amendment Bill which was unanimously approved by the House. On this occasion, Parvaiz Elahi said that journalists’ reservations on the Privileges Amendment Bill have been removed, and under the bill articles pertaining to the journalists have been deleted from the Privileges Act. He said the Privileges now will apply on the journalists, print and electronic media, and journalists will be exempted from the provisions of the Privileges Act. The bill was presented in the House by PMLN’s Sajid Ahmad Khan Bhatti on special direction of Speaker Parvaiz Elahi.