ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly resumed its brief session at the Parliament House in Islamabad tonight with Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in the chair. Later, the Speaker adjourned the House to meet again at 12.30 pm tomorrow.
National Assembly and Senate sessions scheduled for Sunday morning but were subject to delays as JUI-F chief did not turn up to attend the Special Committee meeting the as both the government and the opposition members remained busy holding important meetings.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman arrived at the Parliament House at around 11:15 pm night to attend the special committee meeting on constitutional amendments. The meeting, chaired by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) member Khursheed Shah, besides Maulana Fazl, Bilawal Bhutto, Aleem Khan and others member are also attending the meeting. Attorney General Mansoor Usman Awan briefed the committee on the proposed constitutional amendments.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi welcomed Fazl in the parliament. After reaching the parliament building, JUI-F chief said that nation will get good news. Today’s NA session was initially convened for 11:30am but then changed to 4pm on a Special Parliamentary Committee’s request made to the NA speaker. However, the session was unable to start even at the revised time as meetings between the govt and political parties continued. It remains unknown at what time the session would now begin. Meanwhile, the Senate session was originally schedule for 4pm but was first delayed to 7pm and then 10pm and finally the NA session adjourned for tomorrow at 12:30 pm.
