ISLAMABAD – National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser has summoned a session of National Assembly on October 17 to “discuss the sudden arrest” of Leader of Opposition Shehbaz Sharif.
Qaiser has summoned the session of the lower house by exercising the powers conferred by article 54(3) of the constitution.
The NA session will begin at 11am on next Wednesday in the Parliament House.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has called for a NA and Senate session at the Parliament House gate tomorrow over the arrest of opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif.
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/headline/nab-arrests-ex-cm-shehbaz-sharif-in-saaf-pani-case/
Reacting to the summoning of the NA session, PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said the party will hold a meeting tomorrow to protest against the date fixed for the session.
“We had requisitioned that a NA session be called soon, however, the NA speaker has summoned it on October 17,” she lamented.
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/headline/nab-to-produce-shehbaz-sharif-in-court-today/
On Saturday, the PML-N had requisitioned a session of lower house over party president Shehbaz Sharif’s arrest. A PML-N delegation headed by Raja Zafarul Haq and comprising Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Murtaza Javed Abbasi among others visited NA speaker Asad Qaiser’s residence to submit the requisition.
An accountability court remanded Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif in the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) custody for ten days for interrogation into a housing scam.
