The PML-N on Tuesday withdrew a private member’s bill seeking an amendment to the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, in the National Assembly. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday withdrew a private member’s bill seeking an amendment to the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999, in the National Assembly in line with the decision of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) which had announced that the opposition would not support any government move to change the country’s accountability laws.
The other significant happening in the National Assembly was the rejection of a bill that had jointly been moved by independent MNA Mohsin Dawar and Balochistan National Party (BNP) chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal seeking the punishment of life imprisonment for those found involved in enforced disappearances of the people in any part of the country after it was opposed by the government.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan speaks in the National Assembly on Tuesday. DawnNewsTV
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan on Tuesday hit out at the PML-N for not showing up to a scheduled meeting between a government delegation and members of the opposition a day earlier, criticising the latter for going to a meeting chaired by an unelected person instead of giving preference to the parliament.
Speaking in the National Assembly today, he addressed PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal and told him to not go back on your promise . You said last week you would come and [cooperate in running] the parliament more smoothly [and] discussion would take place in the office of the NA speaker. We went to the NA speaker s office, PPP also came, other people from the opposition came. If [any party did not come], it was the PML-N.
Smooth sailing of NA session Govt, opposition meet today
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January 25, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The government and the opposition are expected to resume the second round of their talks on Monday (today) for smooth sailing of the National Assembly’s current session.
A government team headed by Defense Minister Pervez Khattak had contacted the opposition on Friday seeking its cooperation for smooth sailing of the assembly’s current session but the talks ended without results after which it was decided to meet again on Monday (January 25). The government team comprises State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan and PTI Chief Whip in the National Assembly Aamir Dogar, while the opposition is represented by former prime ministers Shahid Khaqan and Raja Pervez Ashraf, Syed Naveed Qamar, Secretary General PML-N Ahsan Iqbal, Maryam Aurangzeb, Rana Tanveer, Khurram Dastgir, JUI–F’s Salahuddin and Moshin Dawar.
A crucial government-opposition meeting is scheduled to take place in an effort to lower down political temperatures in the country. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: All eyes will be on the Parliament House on Monday (today) where a crucial government-opposition meeting is scheduled to take place in an effort to lower down political temperatures in the country.
Besides, a meeting of the parliamentary group of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) will be held and it was likely to be attended by party’s vice president Maryam Nawaz.
The PML-N’s parliamentary group is meeting only a day after differences within the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) came to the surface on the issue of mode of the anti-government campaign, when party’s secretary general Ahsan Iqbal publicly opposed the proposal of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to move a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the parliament.