Speaker National Assembly will issue production orders for Shahbaz Sharif to head Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting scheduled for Thursday (January 31). According to sources at PAC Secretariat, the panel was scheduled to meet on Monday but the date of meeting was revised. The speaker will issue production orders for Shahbaz, who is chairman of the committee and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly.
Sources said that being the Chairman PAC, Shahbaz Sharif has the authority as per law to issue production orders for any member of the Public Accounts Committee but he will not use his powers to issue his own production order.
"The PAC Secretariat has sent a request to the NA speaker to issue Shahbaz's production order after the PML-N leader decided that he will not use his authority of issuing production orders for himself," the sources said.
A source in the PAC Secretariat said that the meeting will take place even if the NA speaker does not issue Shahbaz's production order.
"Any member can be appointed acting chairman for the meeting," it said.
Last week, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Naeemul Haq had warned that Shahbaz's production orders would be revoked as he had been targeting Prime Minister Imran Khan with personal attacks. Following Haq's tweet, the PML-N had said if the leader of the opposition is not allowed to come to the National Assembly, the leader of the House would not be allowed to come to the National Assembly.
The meeting of the Public Accounts Committee will be held even the production orders are not issued, the PAC Secretariat said. In such case, an acting chairman of the parliamentary body will be elected to run the proceedings, according to sources.
Leader of Opposition in National Assembly, Shahbaz Sharif was elected chairman of the PAC in a meeting of the committee at Parliament House in December as per tradition of the Parliament.
The government after a deadlock with the opposition reached an agreement over the election of the opposition leader as chairman of the PAC. The PAC comprises 23 members of the Lower House and six members of the Upper House of the Parliament.
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