Parliament Files | Pakistan

[...] ISLAMABAD: The 17th session of the National Assembly passed two government bills namely the Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Bill 2015 and [...]

[...] The Parliament of Chad comprises a unicameral legislature (National Assembly) having 155 members who are elected for four-year terms in 25 single-member constituencies [...]

[...] The Parliament of Cambodia is a bicameral legislature comprising the Senate and the National Assembly. The Parliament is composed of 184 members, 123 MPs and 61 Senators. The National Assembly [...]

[...] smaller provinces regarding domination by any one province because of its majority, in the National Assembly. Article 59 of the Constitution states “the Senate shall consist of one hundred and four [...]

[...] ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has been working without the Deputy Speaker for more than three months. Mr. Imtiaz Shahid Qureshi resigned from the post of Deputy [...]

[...] Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has approved a tenfold increase in the salaries of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker. The approval came in the form of a bill to amend the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Speaker and Deputy [...]

[...] adopted a supplementary resolution demanding diplomatic passports for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker in addition to official passports for MPAs and their family members. Another supplementary [...]

[...] minutes, respectively. The Chairman chaired the proceedings for 58% of the session time, the Deputy Speaker 30% and the remaining time was presided over by Members of Panel of Chairpersons. The House [...]

[...] ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has undertaken 21 foreign trips since assuming power in 2013 at a cost of Rs351 [...]

[...] and end of each sitting and documents the actual time spent by the members (including the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader) on the floor of the House. Lawmakers’ attendance remained low [...]

[...] elections are held at least every four years, but it is within the powers of the Prime Minister to ask the monarch to call for an election before the term has elapsed. On a vote of no [...]

[...] elected, is both the head of state and the head of government. The president appoints the prime minister and all the members of the government, with parliamentary approval. Suffrage is universal for [...]

[...] the agenda were answered by the relevant departments, while the MNAs also raised 14 supplementary questions. Eight points of order consumed 17 minutes of the proceedings’ time. The POs were [...]

[...] Day were taken up and responded by the relevant ministry, while the MPAs also raised 15 supplementary questions during the sitting. Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan said that the war against [...]

[...] up and responded by the relevant ministries/departments. In addition, members raised 13 supplementary questions during the sitting. Eleven points of order consumed 105 minutes (60%) of the sitting. [...]

[...] the Transport and Planning & Development departments. In addition, the MPAs raised 22 supplementary questions during the sitting. The House took up four adjournment motions (AMs) regarding [...]

[...] ISLAMABAD: The Sindh Assembly introduced a bill and adopted three resolutions during the fifth sitting of its 18th session [...]

[...] ISLAMABAD: The Sindh Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution against blasphemous cartoons published by a French magazine [...]

[...] ISLAMABAD:  The Sindh Assembly passed Sindh Disabled Persons (Employment and Rehabilitation) Bill 2014 aimed at ensuring [...]

[...] ISLAMABAD: The Sindh Assembly witnessed one of its shortest sittings on Tuesday when it met for one minute in the presence [...]

[...] Assembly’s 18th session was marked by a debate on the recent petrol crisis amid low attendance of lawmakers. Four lawmakers debated the crisis for 69 minutes wherein the Petroleum [...]

[...] ISLAMABAD, January 20, 2015: Low attendance, lack of quorum and excessive use of points of order marked the 17th session of the National [...]

[...] by the House. All sittings before and after the passage of the amendment were marked by low attendance of MNAs. Even the legislators who showed up during the sittings remained present on the floor [...]

[...] resulted in compounding circular debt. The meeting, held at the Parliament House, witnessed low attendance with only three out of 14 senators (21%, including committee chairperson Nasreen Jalil) [...]

[...] profits to the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Another 2% time was spent on two calling attention notices which drew the attention of the Ministries of Finance and Petroleum & Natural Resources [...]

[...] faced by internally displaced persons (IDPs) belonging to North Waziristan. Two calling attention notices (CANs) regarding lack of amenities in Sultanpur village in Havelian, Abbottabad and theft of [...]

[...] and 11 un-starred questions and eight points of orders besides sponsoring two calling attention notices and three private bills in the House. His father – Haji Nadar Shah Afridi – was a prominent [...]

[...] by the Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights. The House left two calling attention notices (CANs) unaddressed during the sitting. One of the CANs was related to lack of amenities in [...]

[...] Assembly was adjourned till February 6 on Wednesday. This is the second time that the ongoing session has been adjourned for over 20 days. The session was adjourned by Speaker Asad Qaiser [...]

[...] proceedings, the House has so far taken three breaks for more than 15 minutes during the ongoing session. A 25-minute prayer break was held during the first sitting of the session, while the second [...]

[...] lawmakers were present at the start and 18 (5%) at the end of the fourth sitting of the ongoing session. The quorum was visibly lacking during the entire sitting. However, it was not pointed [...]

[...] Assembly passed a bill and adopted three resolutions during the 13th sitting of its ongoing session on Tuesday. Seventeen members (10%) were present at the start of the sitting and 41 (24% [...]

ISLAMABAD: The seventh sitting of the Sindh Assembly’s ongoing 18th session was marked by extensive debate and passage of a resolution to condemn th [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Sindh Assembly sitting witnessed the introduction of a bill and unanimous passage of two resolutions amid low attendance of legislators [...]

[...] Zaman for want of two-thirds majority. The House took up a CAN jointly sponsored by JUI-F and PML-N lawmakers regarding non-payment of salary to PIA employees on time. Another CAN regarding [...]

[...] the entire proceedings. The House took up a calling attention notice sponsored by two PML-N lawmakers regarding clearance of 232 vehicles on fake documents in connivance of the Karachi Customs. [...]

[...] absent. The sitting started seven minutes behind the scheduled time of 10 am. Only three PPPP lawmakers including Minister for Education were present at the start and end of the sitting. Just four [...]

[...] crisis for 10 minutes. The House also took up a calling attention notice sponsored by five PPPP lawmakers regarding unscheduled load shedding in various parts of the country. Thirteen out of 34 [...]

[...] . The sitting started seven minutes behind the scheduled time of 1000 hours with only three PPPP lawmakers including Khuhro present at the start and end of the sitting. Similarly, the Sindh Assembly [...]