Opposition forms mutual parliamentary committee over political affairs

The committee comprises of eight members.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – A united opposition on Thursday formed a mutual parliamentary committee over political affairs.

The committee comprises of eight members and will decide future strategies and procedure of the opposition.

It will also play the role of liaison with the government in senate and National Assembly (NA).

The committee consists of three Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) members while one each from Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) and Awami National Party (ANP).

The members are PML-N’s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Rana Tanveer and Rana Sanaullah whereas Raja Pervez Ashraf, Khurshid Shah and Sherry Rehman are from PPP’s side.

ANP’s Amir Haider Hoti and JUI-F’s Maulana Wasy will represent their parties.

Earlier, the opposition parties suggested name of PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari for the chairmanship of Foreign Affairs Committee

A total of 47 parliamentary committees will be formed. 19 out of 40 of them will be supervised by the opposition that include maritime affairs, narcotics control, overseas pakistanis, railways, religious affairs, trade, textile, federal education, industries and production, communication, defence production and science and technology.

The government side will lead remaining 21 committees that include foreign and interior affairs.

National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar will be the head of Finance Committee.

The parties have forwarded names for the committees to NA Speaker while a resolution in this regard will also be presented in the House in coming week.