Bar on 3rd time premiership to end after passage of 18th Amend: Raza
Pakistan
Bar on 3rd time premiership to end after passage of 18th Amend: Raza
The Federal Cabinet in a special meeting under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday unanimously approved the proposed 18th amendment bill 2010.The bill is placed before the both houses of the parliament by the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms. Raza Rabbani, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms explained salient features of the bill. He said it was a unique piece of legislation in many ways. The most important feature is that an incumbent President himself has given away his powers to the parliament and the people of Pakistan. Moreover, the bill will seek to repeal LFO as well as 17th amendment which were the symbols of dictatorial regime. He said that the name of former dictator Gen Ziaul Haq would also be removed from the Constitution as a president. He further said that the passage of the bill will take the nation back to original constitution of 1973. This legislation has enjoyed maximum consensus of political parties on the issue of provincial autonomy. He informed the cabinet that the federal government will set up a committee to oversee the implementation and to provide guidance in framing the rules that will be required for implementation of the provisions of the bill.
