ISLAMABAD, November 05, 2010: The National Assembly met for two hours and four minutes in the fifth sitting of the ongoing 26th session. The sitting witnessed low attendance of members with only 49 members present at the outset, while 99 were present when the sitting was adjourned. The Quorum was visibly lacking at various stages […]

ISLAMABAD, November 04, 2010: The National Assembly met for three hours and 14 minutes in the fourth sitting of the 26th session. The sitting started 49minutes late against the stipulated time of 1000 hours. The sitting witnessed lowattendance of members with only 55 members present at the outset. However,the attendance of members was relatively better […]

ISLAMABAD, November 03, 2010: The third sitting of the 26th NationalAssembly session met for two hours and 30 minutes. The attendance ofmembers at the end of the sitting was observed to be slightly better than theprevious two sittings, with 120 present. However, there were only 51legislators present at the outset of the sitting. The Quorum […]

ISLAMABAD, November 02, 2010: The second sitting of the 26th session was marked by low attendance of members, with only 42 members present at the outset and 63 present when the sitting the adjourned. National Assembly left most of the agenda unaddressed for this Private Members’ Day and raised twenty-nine Points of Orders (POs) that […]

ISLAMABAD, November 01, 2010: The National Assembly did not take up any regular agenda scheduled for the first sitting of the 26th Session that held on Monday, reports the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its Daily Factsheet on the National Assembly Proceedings. The agenda was deferred due to the death of a member […]

ISLAMABAD, October 07, 2010: The National Assembly met for two hours and 10 minutes in the 14th sitting of the 25th session. The sitting started 60 minutes late against the stipulated time. The Parliamentary Party of PMLN boycotted the proceedings of the 14th sitting expressing their reservations on passing “The Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Bill, 2010”. […]

ISLAMABAD, October 06, 2010: The National Assembly met for three hours and 34 minutes in the 13th sitting of the ongoing 25th session. The attendance of members at the outset of the sitting was observed to be relatively better, than the previous sittings, with 107 present. However, there were only 31 MNAs present when the […]

ISLAMABAD, October 05, 2010: The National Assembly met for three hours and 35 minutes in the 12th sitting (Private Members’ Day) of the ongoing Session. The sitting witnessed low attendance of members with only 8% of the legislators present at the outset of the sitting and 17% present when the sitting was adjourned. A maximum […]

ISLAMABAD, October 4, 2010: The National Assembly met for three hours and 46 minutes in the 11th sitting of the 25th session with low attendance of the members. There were only 44 (13%) members present at the outset of the sitting, while 46(14%) were present when the sitting was adjourned. The House passed two bills […]

ISLAMABAD, October 1, 2010: The National Assembly met briefly for 95 minutes in the 10th sitting of ongoing 25th Session. The sitting started an hour and five minutes late than the stipulated time. The question of low attendance of members persisted during the tenth sitting, when only 69 (20%) members were present at the onset […]