Punjab Assembly speaker has suspended additional reserved seats for women and minorities in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Lahore: Reserved seats memberships of treasury lawmakers suspended: PA. The Speaker declared the point of order of the opposition member Rana Aftab on certain reserved seats. Speaker Punjab Assembly read out the decision of the Supreme Court in the assembly session.
The speaker ordered the implementation of the order of suspension of members from today. The desk of the Sunni Ittehad Council welcomed the speaker’s ruling.
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Who are the suspended members?
Sadia Muzaffar, Amira Khan, Fiza Maimoona Soumia Atta, Abdah Bashir, Rahat Afza, Maqsudaan Bibi and Rukhsana Shafiq Tahsin Fawad.
The memberships of Maria Talal and Farzana Abbas Sajda Naveed were also suspended.
The membership of Shaughta Faisal, Nasreen Riaz, Uzmi Butt, and Afshan Hassan has also been suspended.
The suspended Syeda Samreen Taj is related to Muslim League-Q including Samira Nazir.
Shahrbanu, Zeiba Ghafoor Kanwal Nauman, Rubina Nazir and Saima Zahid suspended.
Three minority leaders are also deprived of special privileges. Membership of Tariq Masih, Wasim Anjum, and Basrooji was suspended.
Reserved seats memberships of treasury lawmakers suspended: PA
Amid boycotts and delays, the Punjab Assembly on Monday elected PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz as the first female chief minister of the province and Pakistan.
Maryam clinched an overwhelming victory with 220 votes against rival Rana Aftab Ahmed Khan of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).
Initially, the SIC — which is now home to the PTI-backed independent candidates who won the general election — had nominated Mian Aslam Iqbal, MPA-elect from Lahore, for the slot. However, it later replaced him with Aftab from Faisalabad, a former PPP jiyala, as Iqbal had not come to the House to take oath as MPA, fearing his arrest by the Punjab police.
Ahead of the session today, Maryam first visited her mother’s grave and then arrived at the Punjab Assembly, which was scheduled to convene at 11am.
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