ISLAMABAD, January 26, 2011: The National Assembly met for three hours and nine minutes during the third sitting of the ongoing 28th session. The sitting witnessed low attendance of Members, with 105 Members present at the outset and 79 were present when the sitting was adjourned. Although the Quorum was visibly lacking at various sitting […]

ISLAMABAD, January 25, 2011: The National Assembly met for an hour and 40 minutes during the 2nd sitting of the ongoing 28th session. The Private Members’ Sitting witnessed low attendance of Members, with 66 Members present at the outset and 106 present at the end. The proceedings were put to a halt when Members of […]

ISLAMABAD, January 24, 2011: The National Assembly met for three hours and 28 minutes during the first sitting of the 28th Session that went under way on Monday, reports the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its Daily Factsheet on the National Assembly Proceedings. The long stretched first sitting witnessed low attendance of Members, […]

The sitting started an hour and 30 minutes late against the stipulated time of 1700 hours and lasted for an hour and four minutes. Although the attendance of the Members was relatively better, as compared to the previous sittings, the Members only raised Points of Order to debate upon the petroleum prices and disregarded most […]

ISLAMABAD, January 4, 2011:  The National Assembly suspended the regular agenda due to the tragic death of the Governor, Punjab in a terrorist attack. The House only met for six minutes, with relatively better attendance of Members. There were 117 present on the onset of the sitting, while 131 were present when the sitting was […]

ISLAMABAD, January 3, 2011:  National Assembly did not take up any regular agenda item during the course of ninth sitting of 27th session as the entire time was consumed by points of orders. The sitting, lasted one hour 20 minutes, witnessed relatively better attendance of Members than the previous sittings. A total of 117 Members […]

ISLAMABAD, December 31, 2010: The National Assembly met for an hour and 53 minutes with low-attendance during the eighth sitting of the ongoing 27th session. There were only 45 Members present at the outset, and 82 were present when the sitting was adjourned. The Quorum was visibly lacking at various stages of the sitting, but it […]

ISLAMABAD, December 29, 2010: The National Assembly met for two hours and 52 minutes in the 7th sitting of the ongoing Session. The sitting witnessed low attendance of members with only 21% of the legislators present at the outset of the sitting and 23% present when the sitting was adjourned. A maximum of 47% MNAs […]

ISLAMABAD, December 28, 2010: The National Assembly left most of the agenda unaddressed during the sixth sitting of the ongoing 27th session as Points of Order took more than half (59%) of the sitting time. The Private Members’ Day sitting with an ambitious list of agenda on the Orders of the Day, started 45 minutes […]