No-confidence movement: Pak Nationwide Meeting Speaker summons Parliament consultation on March 25
Pakistan’s Nationwide Meeting Speaker Asad Qaiser has known as a consultation of the Nationwide Meeting for March 25 at 11 am, on the request of opposition events who filed a no-confidence movement towards Top Minister Imran Khan on March 8.
The meeting speaker’s determination to name the consultation got here an afternoon after the joint opposition slammed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) govt for allegedly making an attempt to delay the the most important consultation underneath the guise of the Group of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) assembly in Islamabad on March 22-23.
The opposition chief and PPP leader, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, had even threatened to disrupt the consultation through staging a sit-in in entrance of the meeting.
He warned that if the Nationwide Meeting speaker didn’t permit the no-confidence movement to be tabled on Monday, his party and the opposite opposition events would degree a sit-in in entrance of the Nationwide Meeting.
The opposition, on the other hand, tried to retract his remarks, claiming that the OIC assembly in Islamabad used to be a supply of pleasure for the opposition management and that it could now not do the rest to disrupt the assembly.
NA SESSION
In step with a commentary issued through the Nationwide Meeting Secretariat on Sunday, the NA speaker summoned the consultation the use of powers granted to him underneath Articles 54 (3) and 254.
The NA speaker, in his order, discussed that no appropriate position can be to be had to habits the consultation earlier than March 24 within the wake of renovations on the Parliament Area for the OIC assembly.
“After the receipt of requisition on March 8, the Nationwide Meeting Secretariat asked the Senate Secretariat to offer Chamber of the Senate for containing of Nationwide Meeting consultation. The Senate Secretariat knowledgeable that the Senate chamber may be now not to be had being underneath renovation.”
Qaiser additional mentioned the CDA chairman and Islamabad deputy commissioner had been additionally approached for another association out of doors the Parliament Area however that still remained an workout in futility.
“Having no ok possibility to be had in anyway, for containing of the Consultation of the Nationwide Meeting earlier than March 24 within the workout of powers conferred upon me underneath Clause [3] of Article 54 of Charter of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan learn with Article 254…I, hereby summon the consultation at the first to be had date i.e. Friday on the Parliament Area, Islamabad,” the order issued through the speaker learn.
ARTICLE 54
Article 54 states {that a} consultation of the Nationwide Meeting can also be requisitioned if no less than 25 in line with cent of the contributors signal it, and then the speaker has 14 days to convene the consultation. As soon as the meeting is in consultation, the secretary will distribute a understand for the no-confidence solution, which will probably be moved to the following running day.
From the day the solution is moved, the foundations upload, it “shall now not be voted upon earlier than the expiry of 3 days, or later than seven days”. Subsequently, the mavens say, the speaker will have to name the decrease area into consultation through March 22, whilst balloting at the no-confidence movement will have to happen between 3 and 7 days after the consultation is summoned.
(With Inputs from businesses)
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