Islamabad (HRNW) The joint-session of the Parliament Thursday passed the bills to amend the National Accountability Ordinance 1999 and the Elections Act 2017.
The bills – Elections (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and National Accountability (Amendment) Bill, 2022 – were presented in the session after President Arif Alvi returned them to last week for “reconsideration.”
The session started with Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in the chair. Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarrar presented the bills, which were passed by a majority. The changes proposed by the president were also rejected.
Ghous Bux Khan Mahar of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) requested the government to send the president’s recommendations to the relevant subcommittee of the house for further discussion. However, the law minister rejected the advice, saying that no such provision exist in the constitution.
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said the two bills were passed from both the houses after extensive debates.
He reminded the GDA leader that during the PTI government – in which his party was an ally – more than three dozens of bills were bulldozed through the session without permitting any debate.
During the session, Jamaate-e-Islami’s Senator Mushtaq Ahmed requested permission to table amendments to the bill. However, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Senator Farooq Naiq objected to it, saying that the JI leader should have presented the amendments while the bills were debated in the two houses.
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