ISLAMABAD, February 26, 2013: Starting half an hour late, the seventh sitting of 50th  session that met for an hours and 25 minutes on Monday, passed a private member bill leaving 77% agenda unaddressed. The house unanimously passed the  Capital University Islamabad Bill 2013. Additionally, the Pakistan Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2013 was introduced and sent […]

ISLAMABAD, February 25, 2013: Starting an hour and 33 minutes late, the sixth sitting of 50th  session that met for two hours and 53 minutes on Monday passed two Government bills. The Defence Housing Authority Islamabad Bill 2013 and The Global Change Impact Studies Centre Bill 2012 were passed unanimously by the House. The Anti-terrorism […]

ISLAMABAD, February 22, 2013: Starting 30 minutes late, the fifth sitting of the ongoing National Assembly session witnessed low attendance of Members. Only 47 members (14% of the total membership) were present at the outset while 67 were there at the time of adjournment. The government coalition partner -MQM- staged a protest over SPLGA Repeal […]

ISLAMABAD, February 20, 2013: Starting an hour and 25 minutes late, the third sitting of the ongoing 50th National Assembly session continued to witness low attendance of Members. Only 63 were present at the outset while 27 were there at the adjournment. The Anti-terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2013 was unanimously passed by the House. Five Members […]

Leaves most of agenda items unaddressed ISLAMABAD, February 19, 2013: Starting 42 minutes late, the second sitting of ongoing session that met for two hours and 30 minutes on Tuesday left most of the agenda items, listed on the Orders of the Day, unaddressed. Like previous Private Members’ Days, the agenda for today’s sitting was […]

ISLAMABAD, February 18, 2013: Starting an hour and 40 minutes late, the first sitting of 50th session of National Assembly met for an hour and 52 minutes on Monday, witnessed low attendance of Members. Only 41 members were present at the start of the sitting while 68 were there at the end. Additionally, the Speaker, […]

ISLAMABAD, February 08, 2013: The 12th and the last sitting of 49th session of National Assembly, which met for 10 minutes on Friday, was adjourned because of lack of quorum – 1/4th of the total membership required for House proceedings. A PMLN member pointed out the quorum only five minutes after the sitting started, which […]

ISLAMABAD, February 07, 2013: The 11th sitting of the National Assembly’s 49th session, which met for an hour and 35 minutes on Thursday, was marked by low attendance and unaddressed agenda.Four bills, six resolutions, eight motions under rule 259, and a calling attention notice on the agenda remained unaddressed.Sixty-six members were present at the outset […]

ISLAMABAD, February 04, 2013: Starting 36 minutes late, the National Assembly suspended its regular agenda to offer condolence on the death of an MNA from Balochistan.The 10th sitting of the ongoing 49th session, which met for 39 minutes on Monday, was marked by low attendance as only 53 members were present at the outset and […]