Pakistan People’s Party held meeting to prepare for National Assembly session

The top management of the Pakistan People’s Party held a meeting yesterday in order to prepare for the National Assembly session that is scheduled to take place today. The session is of importance to the government because it deals with the issue of parliamentarians
holding dual nationality.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan had recently suspended several parliamentarians on the grounds that they were the holders of dual nationalities. The National Assembly session to be held today will seek to pass a bill that will allow the members of parliament
to hold dual nationalities and abolish their suspension. The meeting did not only concern the issue of dual nationalities of the parliamentarians, it also dealt with another bill that the government of Pakistan ruled by the Pakistan People’s Party is trying
to pass.

The other bill deals with obtaining immunity for the leaders of the provincial as well as the federal government from being held in contempt of court. The meeting discussed solutions of how best to gain the confidence and support of the opposition leaders
for the purpose of getting the two bills passed in the National Assembly of Pakistan today.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan recently disqualified the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani after putting him under contempt of court for not obeying court orders. The Supreme Court of the country had been asking the former Prime Minister
to write to the Swiss probe in order to re-start an investigation in which the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari was named for being involved in the case of money laundering along with his deceased wife and former Prime Minister of the country, Benazir
Bhutto. The investigation had come to a stop after the signing of the National Reconciliation Ordinance during the time that the President of Pakistan was Pervez Musharraf.

Yousuf Raza Gilani had resisted the orders of the Supreme Court by saying that it was against the constitution of the country to start a legal proceeding against the President as the President of the country enjoyed legal immunity both within as well as
outside the country.     

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Posted by Rabiya Maqbool on Jul 6 2012. Filed under Pakistan, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry