Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Sardar Ayaz Sadiq elected as Speaker National Assembly

Sardar Ayaz

ISLAMABAD: Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the joint candidate of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) and  People People’s Party(PPP), was once again elected Speaker of the National Assembly.

The session for the election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly is being chaired by outgoing Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf.

After completing the process, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said Sardar Ayaz Sadiq was elected Speaker by getting 199 votes while Malik Muhammad Amir Dogar, candidate of Sunni Ittehad Council, got 91 votes.

Later, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf administered the oath as the 23rd Speaker of the National Assembly Ayaz Sadiq.

After being elected Speaker Ayaz Sadiq went to the seat of Malik Amir Dogar and shook hands with him, Ayaz Sadiq also shook hands with Hamid Raza and Umar Ayub Khan.

After the election of the speaker, there will be voting in the National Assembly for the election of the deputy speaker. For the deputy speaker, the candidates of PML-N and PPP are Ghulam Mustafa Shah, while Junaid Akbar is the candidate from the Sunni Ittehad Council.

Earlier, Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervez Ashraf told the members of the House about the procedure for electing the Speaker, after which Barrister Gohar and Umar Ayub of the Sunni Ittehad Council expressed their views on the point of order and said that until the members of the House the number is not complete how the election can be conducted.

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Speaker, deputy speaker for NA to be elected tomorrow

Elections

ISLAMABAD: The outgoing Speaker National Assembly, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, announced the schedule for the elections of the speaker and deputy speaker’s slots.

The elections for the posts of speaker and deputy speaker are scheduled to take place on Friday (March 1, 2024).

According to Article 53 of the Constitution of Pakistan, the National Assembly is mandated to elect a Speaker and Deputy Speaker at its first meeting following a general election, with the process taking precedence over any other business.

The voting process will be conducted through a secret ballot, with the candidate receiving the majority of votes being elected as the new speaker of the House.

Subsequently, the new speaker will announce the schedule for the deputy speaker’s election, which will follow the same procedure as the secret ballot. Strict security measures were implemented to ensure the safety of the session, with heavy contingents of police and Rangers deployed outside the Parliament House, and entry for unauthorized individuals onto the premises was prohibited.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), President, Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has nominated Sardar Ayaz Sadiq for the position of Speaker of the National Assembly on behalf of PML-N, and Bilawal Bhutto has nominated Ghulam Mustafa Shah as the candidate for Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly on behalf of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

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PTI resignations: Party leaders castigate NA speaker over absence

PTI NA Speaker

PTI leaders in fury over absence of NA speaker The leaders reached there for acceptance of resignations PTI leaders demanded immediate elections ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders in response to the acceptance of the resignations of PTI MNAs hold a presser and said that the process is being carried out illegally. Notably, the NA Speaker … Read more

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari pays homage to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

Bilawal Bhutto
  • Raja Pervaiz Ashraf paid glowing tributes to the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
  • He said Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sacrificed his life against dictatorship.
  • Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi has said that  PPP believes to serve the nation .

KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has paid homage to  former prime minister Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto on his 95th birth anniversary.

He said Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said that he was a symbol of the power of the people.

The 95th birth anniversary of former prime minister and founder of PPP Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is being observed on Thursday (today).

Chairman PPP said that Bhutto is an ideology that those who tried to erase became nameless in history, Bhutto’s name still resonates in the streets of Pakistan and all corners of the world.

He further said that after Quaid-e-Azam, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the most popular leader of the nation. He  clarified and said that the transformation of Pakistan-China relations into an unbreakable friendship is also the distinction of Chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Bilawal Bhutto said Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto gave workers the right to form trade unions and ended anti-labour policies. He did agricultural reforms and gave lands to the landless farmers and made the poor the owners of houses.

Similarly, Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf paid glowing tributes to the services rendered by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for the country saying these will be written in golden words.

He said Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sacrificed his life against dictatorship and for the promotion of democracy in the country.

The Speaker said Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto made the country’s defense impregnable by laying the foundation of the nuclear program. He said the former Prime Minister also gave the constitution of 1973.

On other hand, Minister of State for Industries and Production Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi has said that Pakistan People’s Party believes to serve the nation and the country.

He expressed these views while addressing to 95th birth anniversary of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology in Islamabad.

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Speaker NA finalizes strategy to accept PTI MNAs resignations

Speaker NA
  • Speaker of National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has prepared a different policy.
  • PTI members may be asked to confirm the resignations from the Speaker.
  • Imran Khan has directed all the members to reach Islamabad.

ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly has finalized the strategy on the matter of accepting the resignations of members of the Assembly of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf(PTI).

To approve the resignations of 123 members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Speaker of National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has prepared a different policy against the procedure adopted by himself earlier at the time of accepting the resignations of eleven members.

According to the prepared policy, “If 123 members of PTI come to accept their resignations, they have to submit hand written resignations, stating under what circumstances and for what reasons.”

In the past, when Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf accepted the resignations of eleven members, no such action was taken, while none of the resignations of those eleven accepted members were handwritten.

These 11 accepted resignations were signed on computer printouts and the Speaker accepted the resignations without calling the members before him for verification.

According to the policy , “If the PTI members come to the speaker’s chamber together tomorrow, they will be asked to go to the speaker one by one, and if the PTI members do not go to the speaker one by one then the process of verification of resignations will be postponed.”

It should be noted that the PTI members may be asked to confirm the resignations by taking separate time from the Speaker’s Office.

On the other hand, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has directed all the members to reach Islamabad and said that all the members should go to the Parliament House collectively.

 

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Raja Pervaiz Ashraf: India’s Illegal actions of Aug 05 was unconstitutional

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
  • Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), said on Wednesday that the Indian government’s actions on August 5 in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) were unconstitutional and against UN resolutions
  • He said that more than 900,000 Indian troops were abducting Kashmiris and doing bad things to them. This meant that a lot of Kashmiris were going missing.

ISLAMABAD: Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), said on Wednesday that the Indian government’s actions on August 5 in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) were unconstitutional and against UN resolutions.

In a conversation with the media about “Youm e Ishtehsal,” which will be celebrated on August 5, he said that the international community should stop being quiet about the rights of Kashmiris and do what it can to help solve the Kashmir conflict in line with UN resolutions.

The NA Speaker said that the Indian government’s unilateral decision to end Kashmir’s special status on August 5, 2019, was against the Constitution and UN resolutions. He also said that Kashmir was an unfinished part of the subcontinent’s division, which was against UN resolutions.

He said that the UN and the rest of the world should do their part to solve the Kashmir problem. He also said that Indian forces were treating innocent people in occupied Kashmir in an inhumane way and that India’s use of Kashmiris’ rights by denying them their right to self-determination was beyond criticism.

He said that more than 900,000 Indian troops were abducting Kashmiris and doing bad things to them. This meant that a lot of Kashmiris were going missing.

He expressed that the Pakistani government had always stood by their Kashmiri brothers and sisters and would keep doing so until they were free from Indian dominion.

He questioned the Indian government to consider the human rights of Kashmiris and their freedom, emotions, and sentiments. He also asked the Indian government to stop its unconstitutional plan to change Kashmir’s location on August 5, 2019.

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Raja Pervaiz Ashraf claims PPP will form next govt in Punjab

LAHORE: Former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Wednesday that the PPP is on a mission to revive the party in Punjab and is hopeful of forming the next government in Punjab. Ashraf, who is the president of PPP’s central Punjab wing, said that he had reached Lahore a day earlier and was overwhelmed … Read more

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf appointed PPP Central Punjab president

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday appointed party’s stalwart from Gujar Khan and former premier Raja Pervaiz Ashraf as the new PPP Central Punjab president. Additionally, the PPP’s parliamentary leader Syed Hassan Murtaza was appointed general secretary of the central Punjab and Shahzad Saeed Cheema as information secretary of the … Read more

‘PTI leadership is fanning hatred in the country,’ says Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Monday lashed out at Imran Khan Leadership for fanning hatred in the country. According to the details, while speaking during the national assembly session Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said that the whole country is in the grip of rumors. He criticized the Pakistan … Read more