KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) has issued notices to Attorney General for Pakistan, National Assembly Secretary and Secretary of a parliamentary committee on a plea against the recent increase in salaries of the members of the National Assembly and sought the replies on September 16, 2020.
A division bench of the SHC headed by Justice Nadeem Akhtar sought the replies after petitioner Syed Mehmood Akhtar Naqvi submitted in the petition that the minister of parliamentary affairs had presented a bill with regard to an increase in the salaries and allowances of the members of the National Assembly.
He submitted that the recent increase in the salary of the members of the lower house of Parliament should be declared as illegal as the impugned increase ought not to have been proposed, allowed or made in view of weak and unstable economic condition of the country.
He requested the high court to set aside the amendment in the law with regard to the increase in the salaries of the MNAs by declaring the same as illegal. The bench also issued notices to the National Assembly secretary and parliamentary committee secretary and directed them to produce the complete record, allowances and privileges of the members of the assembly and the impugned increase made therein as well as mode and manner through which the impugned increase was proposed and allowed, and adjourned the hearing till September 16.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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