(Voting Date) Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022

(Voting Date) Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022

(Voting Date) Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022 details are shared on this page. The much-anticipated session of the National Assembly with a crucial no-confidence motion — filed by the opposition against Prime Minister Imran Khan — on the agenda was adjourned till March 28 (Monday) without tabling of the resolution.

The ruling PTI’s Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Shireen Mazari, Asad Umar and Ali Muhammad Khan were among those attending the session, as well as Grand Democratic Alliance’s Dr Fehmida Mirza.

Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022
Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022

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Several prominent opposition members, including Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan Peoples’ Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and co-chair Asif Ali Zardari were in the Parliament House on Friday to participate in the much-anticipated session.

Following the tabling of the resolution, the deputy speaker announced that debate on the resolution would begin on March 31.

“The session is adjourned until 4pm on March 31,” he said.

Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022

From the opposition ranks, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif, PPP Chairman Bilalwal Bhutto-Zardari and PPP co-chair Asif Ali Zardari, were also present.

Reportedly Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022, over 150 opposition lawmakers and around 50 treasury members attended the session. However, the exact numbers could not be ascertained.

The session began with the recitation of the Holy Quran and prayers for late MNA Khayal Zaman, former president Rafiq Tarar and Senator Rehman Malik. However, NA speaker Asad Qaiser announced that it would be adjourned in light of parliamentary convention.

It is parliamentary convention that the first sitting after the death of an MNA is limited to prayers for the soul of the Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022 departed and tributes fellow lawmakers wish to pay them.

Qaiser stated that according to tradition, the agenda is deferred to the next day when a member of the lower house passes. “This has happened for years,” he said, adding that this had happened a total of 24 times in the past.

He once again asserted that he would conduct proceedings “as per rules and procedures” after which he adjourned the session till 4pm on March 28.

The National Assembly Secretariat had on Thursday issued a 15-point ‘Orders of the Day’ for the NA session, which included the no-confidence resolution.

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, who had earlier told Dawn that there was no plan to adjourn the session, took to Twitter to state that “nothing would happen” during today’s sitting.

The opposition had submitted the motion and requisition for the session to the NA Secretariat on March 8. Under the Constitution, the speaker was bound to hold the Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022 session within 14 days. However, he did not summon the session until March 21 [the 14th day], which is now set to commence from today.

Voting on the resolution will be held at least three to seven days after it has been laid before the National Assembly.

‘Speaker has become Imran Khan’s stooge’

Addressing a press conference outside Parliament House shortly after the session was adjourned, Shehbaz launched a scathing attacking on Qaiser, calling him a “stooge” of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

The PML-N president said that Qaiser violated the rules of procedures by conducting proceedings as “a PTI worker”.

Opposition leaders address a press conference outside Parliament House. — DawnNewsTV
Opposition leaders address a press conference outside Parliament House. — Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022

He stated that the motion and requisition for the session was submitted on March 8 and, under the rules, the NA speaker was supposed to summon the session within 14 days. “This was a constitutional obligation and he violated the Constitution by not doing this,” he said.

Shehbaz also called for the speaker to be tried under Article 6 of the Constitution, which deals with high treason.

“After the Fateha khwani, I stood up to speak on a point of order but my microphone was not turned on,” he claimed. He accepted that parliamentary convention dictated that the session would be limited to prayers for the departed, but added that today was “an important day”.

“The Constitution and the law is above tradition and voting should have been allowed […] tradition aside, the speaker should have taken up the motion [but] he did not listen and left.”

Shehbaz declared that if the same was done during the next session, the Tehreek e Adam Aitmad in Pakistan 2022 opposition would use all “constitutional, political and legal” options to take the no-trust move forward.

Later in a tweet, he said that the NA speaker “continues to trample upon constitutional provisions”.

“This partisan behaviour does not suit the custodian of the house. Adjournment of NA session is part of desperate efforts to disrupt no-confidence process,” he said. “You cannot stop the inevitable through such underhand tactics!”

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