PTI lawmakers avoid legislation despite receiving salaries: Saad Rafique
Pakistan
PTI lawmakers avoid legislation despite receiving salaries: Saad Rafique
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Federal minister and PML-N leader Khawaja Saad Rafique said on Wednesday that the PTI lawmakers were avoiding the legislation process in the National Assembly despite having all perks and privileges.
He said the National Assembly was complete in the true spirit of the Constitution of Pakistan and that no one could challenge it’s legislative prerogative.
Taking to Twitter, he said the by-elections on the seats vacated by the PTI lawmakers had already been held.
Taking a jibe at the PTI legislators, Rafique said they [PTI members] didn’t participate in the proceedings of the National Assembly despite receiving all perks and privileges.
The minister said there was now such law in the country to either force a member parliament to forcibly join the proceedings or restrict the legislation process despite having a majority.
The PML-N leader’s remarks came a day after the Chief Justice of Pakistan during a hearing observed that an “incomplete” assembly had passed the amendments to the NAB laws.
On Tuesday, CJP Umar Atta Bandial remarked that the recent amendments to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ordinance would slide Pakistan 100 points down in the world corruption index.
The Supreme Court (SC) bench comprising the CJP, Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan, and Justice Mansoor Ali Shah heard Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s plea against the amendments. Khawaja Harris, the lawyer representing Mr Khan in the court, said if executive did not perform its duties, people were left with the option to move to the SC.
The CJP remarked incomplete National Assembly passed the amendments adding the SC could not find a law that dealt with the authority of an incomplete assembly to enact laws.
The CJP further said the deficiencies in system halted the government to ensure accountability adding the wrong use of NAB amendments ruined the businesses of people.
Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan remarked the amendments benefitted only those who enacted them adding only an iota of powerful people from the party were running the affairs of the whole party. Justice Ijaz further said the amenments were enacted in haste adding if they were passed with ill intentions, how could they lead to betterment.
