NA Speaker Asad Qaiser emphasised that open or traceable vote in the upcoming Senate elections would strengthen parliamentary democracy in the country. Photo courtesy GOP Twitter/File
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday emphasised before the Supreme Court hearing a presidential reference that open or traceable vote in the upcoming Senate elections would strengthen parliamentary democracy in the country.
“It is highly desirable that voting for the Senate should be through open or traceable vote rather than through secret ballot so as to strengthen parliamentary democracy of which the political parties are linchpin,” argued a synopsis furnished by the NA speaker through senior counsel Abdul Latif Yousafzai.
NA Speaker supports open balloting for Senate polls
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NA Speaker supports open balloting for Senate polls
ISLAMABAD (APP) - National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday supported the presidential reference before the Supreme Court seeking an opinion on open balloting for the upcoming Senate elections.
The NA Speaker, in an eight-page reply submitted through Advocate Abdul Latif Yousafzai to the apex court, stated that the assembly would support any decision taken by the SC.
“Constitution-making and any amendment in it is the responsibility of the Parliament while the apex court has the right to define it,” Asad Qaiser said.
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Two PML-N MNAs called on National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday and distanced themselves from their resignations forwarded to him.
The speaker s office had received resignations of MNAs Sajjad Awan and Murtaza Javed Abbasi. The two lawmakers earlier described it as a conspiracy .
They said they had submitted their resignations to the party leadership and did not know how they reached the speaker s office.