ISLAMABAD: the govt. and also the joint opposition united on weekday to make a 33-member special parliamentary committee to arrange recommendations for electoral reforms.
A meeting of parliamentary leaders of opposition and government-allied parties, among them some ministers, control in Parliament House on weekday, supported Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s proposal to make the committee. National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq presided over the meeting.
Interestingly, the West Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) – that earlier appeared to be reluctant to become a part of the committee – conjointly attended the meeting. Sources told Dawn that before the huddle, PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi control a gathering with the speaker in his chamber. it's believed that the speaker persuaded him to confirm his party’s participation within the meeting.
The PTI, that has sturdy reservations over the results of last year’s elections, has been tightened elections reforms since then and has staged many demonstrations and rallies in numerous components of the country over the problem.
On the opposite hand, the govt. has been asking the PTI to hunt an answer at intervals parliament and not on the streets.
The PTI had skipped the primary meeting control during this regard on Gregorian calendar month eleven as a result of, in line with Mr Qureshi, it had been reviewing the premier’s proposal and wished to debate the problem in a very meeting of PTI’s core committee.
Prime Minister Sharif on Gregorian calendar month ten wrote to the Na Speaker, asking him to represent a special parliamentary committee comprising members of each homes of parliament to require up the problem. He urged that the planned committee ought to gift sturdy recommendations on free and truthful elections, institution of caretaker government and use of contemporary technology in polls.
In Friday’s meeting, it had been united that illustration within the planned committee would be to all or any parliamentary parties on the premise of their strength in each homes.
According to this formula, the ruling PML-N can have seven seats within the committee, followed by the surgery with four.
The meeting was attended by Leader of Opposition within the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah, surgery MNA Syed Naveed Qamar, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Abdul Rahim Mandokhel of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Qaumi Watan Party chief Aftab Sherpao, ruler Rashid Ahmed of the Awami Muslim League, Dr Arif Alvi of the West Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, federal ministers Khawaja Saad Rafiq and ruler Aftab Ahmad, and others.
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