ISLAMABAD: In an unusual move likely to enrage civil society, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has disapproved a briefing to a panel on the controversial election act amendment bills to be given by an amalgam of NGOs working to make electoral processes transparent and credible.
Informed sources told Dawn that the Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs was scheduled to meet on July 12 with Senator Taj Haider in the chair. The committee, which has two bills seeking to amend the Elections Act on the agenda of its meeting, has invited the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) for a briefing on the bills.