Zardari, Fazl meet Nawaz to evolve broader consensus on twenty sixth constitutional modification

(From left to right) PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and President Asif Ali Zardari meet at former’s Jati Umra residence on October 16, 2024. — Reporter
(From left to proper) PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and President Asif Ali Zardari meet at former’s Jati Umra residence on October 16, 2024. — Reporter

LAHORE: The political heavyweights — Sharif brothers, President Asif Ali Zardari and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman — on Wednesday sit collectively on the former’s Jati Umra residence in Lahore to debate the proposed twenty sixth constitutional modification.

President Zardari and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl visited PML-N President Nawaz Sharif’s residence to attend the dinner hosted in honour of the political leaders.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Overseas Minister Ishaq Dar, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab and JUI-F’s Maulana Asad Mahmood had been among the many attendees of the essential sitting.

The event got here a day after the PPP and the JUI-F reached an settlement on a draft for proposed twenty sixth constitutional modification.

Maulana Fazl introduced the event in a joint presser with the PPP chief, saying the consensus was achieved after intensive deliberations between the 2 events.

He praised Bilawal Bhutto for taking part in a vital function in bringing the events collectively on this difficulty.

Maulana had additionally introduced assembly the PML-N president and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) management to construct wider assist for the modification.

Speaking to media individuals, Bilawal additionally hoped for evolving a broader consensus on the matter, saying the main points of the joint draft could be revealed later.

The constitutional package deal, amongst different issues, goals to arrange a federal constitutional courtroom and repair the tenure of the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) for 3 years.

Final month, the coalition authorities made a futile try to move a ‘closely-guarded’ constitutional package deal amid hypothesis a couple of potential extension within the tenure of CJP Qazi Faez Isa.

Nevertheless, the federal government didn’t even desk the amendments in parliament after the JUI-F chief refused to assist the federal government’s judicial package deal, leaving the contentious amendments hanging within the steadiness.

To move the constitutional amendments, the federal government wants a two-thirds majority in parliament, with sources claiming that it was wanting 13 votes within the Nationwide Meeting (NA) and 9 within the Senate.

NA, Senate periods summoned right this moment

The federal authorities has summoned separate periods of the Nationwide Meeting and the Senate on October 17(right this moment) — the very subsequent day of the Shangai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit because the ruling coalition stepped up its efforts to introduce a a lot touted constitutional package deal in parliament.

The coalition authorities has left no stone unturned to evolve consensus on its controversial ‘constitutional package deal’ with all political events commonly holding conferences of the particular parliamentary committee — a physique led by PPP MNA Syed Khursheed Shah — to debate the proposed twenty sixth constitutional modification.

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