Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain, on Friday decided to summon a session of the National Assembly on August 13th.

The president signed a summary approving the NA session scheduled on August 13th, forwarded to him by the caretaker Prime Minister. The newly elected members of the assembly will take oath on the first day of the session. This will be followed by elections for the speaker, deputy speaker, and the leader of the House.

Earlier in the day, acting Sindh Governor Agha Siraj Durrani, after the recommendation of caretaker Chief Minister Sindh, announced a session of the Sindh Assembly to be held on the same day i.e August 13th. The session will take place at 10am on August 13th, Monday. On Thursday, acting Governor Zafar Iqbal Jhagra, of KPK also summoned a session of the provincial assembly on August 13th.

The speaker and deputy speaker of KP assembly will be elected and sworn in during the same session, along with the Chief Minister of the province. The session will begin at 10am and will take place at the KP Assembly building.

The National Assembly Secretariat has made special arrangements for the Preliminary Session of the 15th National Assembly, which is scheduled to take place on August 13th. In this regard a Control Room and Facilitation Centre has been set up in the Parliament House to assist and facilitate the newly elected Members of the National Assembly. The Control Room has been established in the Service Branch of the National Assembly which will remain open round the clock, while the facilitation centre set up in Committee Room No.2 for collection of Bio-data of MNA elect, issuance of MNAs Folders/Bags containing various Assembly documents, preparation of photo-graphs, collection of local/permanent addresses and preparation of Identity Cards of newly elected Members of National Assembly will remain open from 9.00 a.m to 9.00 p.m.

To ensure fool proof security and due to shortage of seating capacity in the galleries, only two passes will be issued to each elected member of the National Assembly for the occasion of oath taking ceremony.

The Members have also been requested to provide full names of their guests with CNIC Nos. and vehicle Nos one day before the session, otherwise the guests will not be allowed to enter red zone. The National Assembly Secretariat has issued a circular in this regard to all the elected members of the National Assembly.

Furthermore, the National Assembly Secretariat will remain open on Saturday August 11th and Sunday August 12th, in connection of the preliminary session of the National Assembly.

Published in Daily Times, August 11^th 2018.