ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers from far and wide had converged in the capital where Constitutional Package was expected to be tabled in the NA on Sunday (15th September, 2024) as JUI-F and PTI refused to vote sans pondering over the bill profoundly.
The National Assembly to meet on Monday 12.30 noon. Sane Pakistanis go haywire wondering why the government is keeping the whole Constitutional Amendments affair secretive? Cynics maintain that the Parliament is being used as rubber stamp to make the judiciary subservient.
Initially the NA session was supposed to commence at 11.30 AM, then 4 PM and now tentatively at 8 PM. Similarly the Federal Cabinet, with PM Shehbaz Sharif in Chair, that was to meet at 11 AM and later at 3 PM, too has not started. PML-N Supremo Nawaz Sharif will also attend the Cabinet Meeting.
The Senate session is now expected to convene at 10 PM (Sunday, 15th September, 2024). Earlier it was slated for 4 PM and then rescheduled to 7 PM.
Savants at the helm of affairs maintains that the Package will not be tabled until JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman agrees to vote. Meanwhile, PTI delegation is also negotiating with Fazl. JI has claimed that the parties were engaged in buying and selling votes. It is pertinent to mention here that treasury benches harbours 54 votes i.e.: short of 9 votes to pass the Package. JUI-F’s 8 votes can be decisive in this state of affairs.
On Saturday (14th September, 2024) BNP-M Chief Akhtar Mengal has revealed that two of his party’s senators were being pressurised to vote Constitutional Package that is a set of propose amendments to the Constitution.
* Establishment of Constitutional Courts; Modus Operandi of sacking the judges; Selection of CJP from amongst the Topmost Senior Judges; Amendment in Articles 63, 51, 175, 181, and 187; Augmentation of the Seats in Balochistan Assembly from 65 to 81; Services of IHC Judges to be available to Provincial High Courts.
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