ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Wednesday has called a session of the Lower House on October 17.
The National Assembly (NA) session will begin at 11am on next Wednesday in the Parliament House.
Meanwhile, the opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has announced to hold a NA and Senate session at the Parliament House gate on Thursday (tomorrow) over the arrest of opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif.
PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said “the party will call 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.
Earlier, during its Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting, the leadership of Pakistan PML-N decided to take the matter of Shehbaz Sharif’s arrest to the Parliament and record a protest inside the House.
Former premier Nawaz Sharif, who maintained a low profile in politics ever since his release from prison, chaired the CEC meeting.
Arrest of Shehbaz Sharif
On October 6, an accountability court granted 10-day physical remand of Shehbaz Sharif in the Rs14 billion Ashiyana-i-Iqbal housing project scam.
The National Accountability Bureau arrested the PML-N president, who is the Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, inside its Lahore office where he was summoned to record his statement in connection with the Punjab Saaf Pani Company case.
A combined investigation team of the country’s top anti-graft watchdog quizzed him for an hour over his alleged role in awarding contract to his “favourite firm” in violation of laws in the Ashiyana-i-Iqbal housing project.
The Bureau later issued a statement, declaring that former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif has been arrested in the scam.
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