ISLAMABAD: National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaisar has summoned a requisitioned session of the NA on November 23 (Friday) at 10:00 am.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarians had submitted requisition notice to the National Assembly Secretariat on last Thursday. The requisition was signed by 88 members.
As per Article 54 (3), the NA speaker is bound to summon the session within 15 days of the requisition notice receiving the requisition notice which must be signed by at least one fourth members of total strength of the House.
The PML-N, main opposition party in the NA, wanted to discuss issues like National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as a tool against opposition, 100 day performance of the incumbent government with particular reference to prevailing economic situation and brutal murder of SP Tahir Dawar after his abduction from centre of Islamabad.
PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurengzeb has expressed the hope that the speaker would issue production orders of the opposition leader, Shahbaz Sharif.
Published in Daily Times, November 21st 2018.