Two resolutions to be moved separately: Government to lay three ordinances in NA today

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government would lay Thursday (Jan 30) three ordinances before the National Assembly and move two resolutions separately to extend the period of two other ordinances for another 120 days.

The 19th session of the National Assembly was scheduled on February 10 but the President has summoned it today at 4pm on the request of the government for laying and extending the ordinances urgently in the House.

According to 14-point agenda of the first sitting of 19th session of the National Assembly, the resolutions would be moved separately in the House for passage to extend the Tax Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority Ordinance, 2019 for a further period of one hundred and twenty days.

The ordinances which would be laid before the Lower House of the Parliament are: (i) the National Accountability (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2019, (ii) the Enforcement of Women's Property Right (Amendment) Ordinance, 2019 and (iii) the Tax Laws (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2019.

About the legislative business of the agenda, the government would also table "the Federal Public Service Commission (Validation of Rules) Bill, 2019" in the House for passage.

Chairman Standing Committee on Defense Amjid Ali Khan would present the report on "the Joint Maritime Information Organization Bill, 2019" in the National Assembly.

Two calling attention notices would be moved separately in the Lowe House of the Parliament regarding difficulties being faced by Pakistani students in China due to coronavirus and discontinuation of free provision of medicines to cancer patients.

However, the members of opposition parties said that they would criticize the PTI government and strongly oppose the ordinances. They said that the PTI government has made the Parliament as ordinance factory.

PPP Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Abdul Qadir Patel said that the PTI government is bypassing the Parliament and promulgating ordinances. He said that the government is not taking the parliament into confidence on important decisions. He said that the government should make legislation by taking the opposition into confidence instead promulgating ordnances.

Patel said that his party would raise the issues related to public including price hike, inflation, and increase in prices of gas, electricity bills, medicines and other commodities.

Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) MNA Syed Javed Husnain said that the PTI is not giving importance to the Parliament and is promulgating ordinances. "We are not in the favor of ordinances which negate the Parliament," he said. He said that the opposition is ready for cooperation in the interest of the nation if the PTI government is serious for legislation.

He said that the PML-N would raise the issues of price hike, unemployment, report of Transparency International and overall political situation of the county in the National Assembly.