NA committee proposes 49 amendments to 2020 election bill
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Monday May 03, 2021
The Election (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the National Assembly on October 16, 2020. File photo of National Assembly.
NA s Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs proposes as many as 49 amendments to Election (Amendment) Bill, 2020.
The Election (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the National Assembly on October 16, 2020.
The major proposed amendments to the bill include more financial autonomy to the Election Commission of Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs has proposed as many as 49 amendments to the Election (Amendment) Bill, 2020,
The Election (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the National Assembly on October 16, 2020. It was referred to the Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs the same day.
Nation needs dollar-making sewing machine instead of EVMs: Rana Sanaullah
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PML-N Pubjab president Rana Sanaullah. Photo: File.
PML-N s Rana Sanaullah says nation does not need electronic voting machines, but the dollar-making sewing machine of Imran Khan s sister, Aleema Khan.
Says selected PM did not provide any relief to the masses because he wants votes through the EVMs, not from masses. When Shahbaz Sharif spoke about electoral, parliamentary, and economic reforms, Niazi accused the PML-N of demanding NRO, says Sanaullah.
LAHORE: PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah on Monday took a jibe at the PTI-led government and said that the Pakistani nation does not need electronic voting machines (EVMs) but needs the dollar-making sewing machine of Prime Minister Imran Khan s sister, Aleema Khan.
Government explains its proposed electoral reforms for transparent elections
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Monday May 03, 2021
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry (left) addressing a press conference with Adviser to Prime Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan in Islamabad on Monday, May 3, 2021. Photo: Screengrab from Geo News
Information Fawad Chaudhry says the government wants to get the electoral reforms passed from Parliament through a consensus.
Babar Awan says reforms will be presented to stakeholders, including civil society, media and bar councils and associations.
Chaudhry and Awan explain govt s proposed amendments to Election Act 2017.
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry and Adviser to the Prime Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, in a joint press conference on Monday, shared details of the government s plan for electoral reforms to ensure transparency and fairness in the election process.
In this file photo, Babar Awan meets Imran Khan at the PM Secretariat Photo courtesy Fahad Chaudhry
ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has accused the government of committing contempt of court by introducing legislation in parliament through an unelected adviser.
Speaking at a news conference at National Press Club here on Wednesday, PML-N MNA Mohsin Nawaz Ranjha particularly referred to the recently introduced Elections (Amendment) Bill 2020 by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan and termed the bill “unconstitutional and illegal”.
Mr Ranjha addressed the news conference hours after his party’s MNA Chuadhry Bashir Mehmood Virk raised the same objection during a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs that had been convened to take up the bills related to the election laws.