National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaiser has summoned the session of the lower house of parliament on March 25, a notification issued by the NA Secretariat today said.
This will be the 41st session of the NA, which will convene at 11am.
NA speaker has rejected the opposition’s request of summoning the session on March 21.
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According to the notification, the session has been summoned after the joint opposition made the requisition for it under Article 54 of the constitution along with the submission of the no-confidence motion against the prime minister on March 8.
Article 54 of the constitution reads that once a session of the lower house been requisitioned with signatures of at least 25 per cent of the members on it, the speaker has a maximum of two weeks to summon a session.
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Therefore, the speaker had to call the lower house in session by March 22 but according to NA speaker, it could not be summoned in the given time frame due to conference of Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) on March 23.
Sources told Bol News that only Fateha for the deceased PTI MNA Haji Khayal Zaman will be offered on the first day while discussion and voting on the no-confidence motion against the premier will be decided by the speaker later.
