Which PTI-backed MNAs voted for twenty sixth Constitutional Modification?

A view of a National Assembly session. — APP/File
A view of a Nationwide Meeting session. — APP/File

The federal government clinched 225 votes, surpassing the required 224, with help from a handful of impartial MNAs, together with members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), within the historic midnight passage of the twenty sixth Constitutional Modification within the Nationwide Meeting on Sunday evening.

Zahoor Qureshi, Aurangzeb Khichi, Usman Ali, and Mubarak Zeb had been the PTI-backed impartial MNAs who voted within the tweak’s favour, whereas Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q)’s Chaudhry Ilyas additionally supported the laws.

The chief justice of Pakistan, after the president’s assent, shall be chosen by a parliamentary committee and have a hard and fast time period of three years underneath the judicial reforms handed through the late-night session of the parliament. Furthermore, a brand new constitutional bench may also be fashioned.

On the advice of the parliamentary committee, the prime minister will ship the identify of the chief justice to the president. In case of refusal of a choose, the identify of the following senior choose shall be thought of.

In response to the PTI MNAs help for the federal government’s transfer, former ruling occasion’s senior chief Asad Qaiser stated on Monday that the PTI-backed impartial candidates, who supported the contentious constitutional modification, betrayed the occasion and its founder, Imran Khan.

“Those that voted [in favour of the bill] have dedicated treachery in opposition to the occasion and its founder,” stated Qaiser throughout a media discuss.

Emphasising that the votes solid weren’t in keeping with the occasion coverage, Qaiser, who can also be a former speaker of the decrease home, acknowledged: “These weren’t their votes, they had been votes for the founding father of PTI.”

Moreover, he warned of authorized motion in opposition to those that confirmed disloyalty to the occasion.