SIC MNAs likely to raise matter of ban on meetings in Adiala prison

ISLAMABAD: The members of the National Assembly from Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) will raise the matter of imposing restriction on the meeting of the inmates of Adiala prison in the lower house when it meets today (Wednesday).

The opposition members will try their level best to block the proceedings of the National Assembly. The leaders of PTI were not allowed to visit their incarcerated stalwarts in the prison on Tuesday. They have also knocked the doors of the superior judiciary regarding their grievances.

Highly placed parliamentary sources told The News that the inaugural session of the 16th National Assembly that commenced on February 29 would be adjourned sine die today (Wednesday). It is likely that ministers, who assumed their offices on Monday, would attend the session of the last day of the national legislature.

According to the two-point agenda for the day that the members would felicitate Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on his election. The agenda doesn’t have much to discuss political affairs but the opposition members are adamant to agitate matter pertaining to the treatment being meted out to their leaders in jail and registration of cases against their workers when they were observing day of protest against election rigging in different cities.

The opposition members have planned to submit requisition for summoning the house soon after prorogation of the session. It is not certain that Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif will attend the house on the last day of the session.

The sources pointed out that if the opposition members resorted to rumpus, the house would be prorogued without much delay.

The members of National Assembly will be assembling here in the NA hall tomorrow (Thursday) again to elect new member of Senate from the capital. The hall of NA has been declared to use as polling station on the occasion.

The whole house is Electoral College for the seat that was earlier vacated by Yousaf Raza Gilani and now contesting it again. He quit the Senate seat to take oath as member of National Assembly where he took part in all elections. Now, he is returning to the upper house of Parliament so that he could become the Chairman of Senate, the sources added.