Senate, NA sessions from Monday

ISLAMABAD: Two separate sessions of National Assembly and Senate are going to start from tomorrow (Monday) amid extraordinary security measures, Geo news reported Sunday.

The Lower House would meet at 3 pm with Speaker National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza in chair, while Senate session would start at 11 am to be chaired by Chairman Senate Farooq H Naek.

Besides a number of important issues, the much talked about National Accountability Commission bill would likely be tabled before the National Assembly while Senate would likely take up the adjournment motion submitted by Deputy Chairman Senate Jan Mohammad Jamali and Chairman Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms Mian Raza Rabbani against the new discriminatory rules and regulations of inspection of Pakistanis at US airports.

Heated debate in both houses on the incidents of target killings in Karachi as well as blast at Karachi on Yuma-e-Ashura are also expected to take place. The opposition members are planning to raise the burning issue of abnormal increase in electricity and gas tariffs.

As the draft bill of National Accountability Commission was returned to the Premier by PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif with proposed amendments, the same would likely be tabled before the House during the current session.

Meanwhile, in the face of growing acts of terrorism and threats to the state institutions extraordinary security steps have been taken for the upcoming sessions of both the houses.

Perhaps first time in the parliamentary history of the country the security forces took control of the chambers of Prime Minister and Federal Ministers in the Parliament for security clearance.