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INCLUSIVE DECISION MAKING AND BUILDING UP CONSENSUS ABOVE THE PARTY POLITICS ON ALL MEGA REFORMS IMPERATIVE; NA SPEAKER WRITES LETTER TO THE LEADER OF OPPOSITION  

 

Islamabad:12th November 2021; Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser has written a Letter to the Leader of Opposition Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif seeking his role to revive the consultation process through Committee on Legislative Business. He desired this  through a Letter addressed to the Leader of Opposition, yesterday.

Speaker Asad Qaiser said that a Committee on Legislative Business was constituted with consensus between the Government and the Opposition on various Bills. He said that various bills including the Elections (Amendment) Bills 2021 passed by the National Assembly but not passed by the Senate in the stipulated time are set to be considered in the Joint Sitting of the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament).

The Speaker said that a consultation process has not been completed by the Committee on Legislative Business. He proposed that both Treasury and Opposition should proceed for inclusive decision making and building up consensus above the party politics on all mega reforms of common interest in the wider national interest. 

Speaker Asad Qaiser reiterated the need to utilize this forum to restart the consultative process on these Bills in the larger public interest.  He also desired for active  role of Opposition to make this process meaningful.  He also assured that his office would facilitate the Government and the Opposition in creating a consensus on the above said Bills.