NA speaker refuses to provide record of house, standing committee to SC

ISLAMABAD, May 08 (Online): Speaker National Assembly (NA) has refused to provide record of the house and standing committee on law to Supreme Court (SC) immediately.

Clear reply has been given to Attorney General (AG) office that the decision for providing record will be taken by the special committee constituted by the house.

The NA secretariat has refused to immediately provide the record to
SC in respect of proceeding of NA and standing committee on law and justice occurred during the approval of Supreme Court practice
and procedure act.

Assembly secretariat has informed AG office that Speaker NA
Raja Pervez Ashraf has assigned the matter of provision of record to
special committee on the demand of lower house.

The special committee constituted under Aslam Bhootani will meet in parliament house today (Tuesday). The committee will recommend the speaker in the meeting whether the record of house and standing committee should be provided to SC or otherwise.

The committee comprises Shahida Akhtar Ali, Muhammad Abu
Bakar, Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir, Sheikh Rohail Asghar,
Syed Hussain Tariq,Naz Baloch, Khalid Hussain Magsi, Wajih
Qamar and Dr Muhammad Afzal Khan Dhandla.

This committee has also been directed to probe into audio tape matter regarding son of former Chief Justice of Pakistan
(CJP) Saqib Nisar.

Speaker NA Raja Pervez Ashraf will evolve his final opinion on the recommendation of the committee.