ISLAMABAD: The appointment of retired justice Azmat Saeed as the head of the inquiry commission on the Broadsheet scandal has become controversial as the opposition has rejected the selection while the government has defended the move.
The opposition has rejected the appointment on the grounds that Justice Saeed was part of the five-member bench of the Supreme Court which announced the verdict against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Panama Papers case.
On the other hand, federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan have said that the government had no “bad” intention in retired Justice Saeed’s appointment.
A ruling party’s senator shamed the opposition for the hue and cry over ‘rule through ordinances’. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: A ruling party’s senator shamed the opposition for the hue and cry over ‘rule through ordinances’, saying the PPP government led by Benazir Bhutto promulgated as many as 357 ordinances in three years from Oct 1996 to Nov 1996.
Senator Waleed Iqbal, while taking part in a discussion on the issue in the lower house, said Senator Mian Raza Rabbani, who was now raising questions over constitutional power of the president, was law minister at that time.
He said 26 ordinances had been promulgated each year on average during the 10-year rule of the Pakistan People Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. On the other hand, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government had promulgated less than 20 ordinances per year.
Senators want minister fired over blackout
Opp senators demand making public real facts behind massive outage
ISLAMABAD:
The Senate session on Tuesday witnessed the opposition coming down hard on the treasury benches over the hours-long Saturday night blackout, which plunged the entire country into darkness, calling for the concerned minister to resign.
The opposition benches criticised the government, demanding the real facts of the nationwide power blackout be brought to light. The lights came back on Sunday night gradually, but reportedly in some parts of the country it had not.
The Senate session presided over by Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani discussed the opposition s motion of depriving parliament and provinces of their rights by the government.
LAHORE:Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar has said that the mission of the opposition is to halt the process of accountability but as long as Imran Khan is the prime minister, there is no.