Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser on Friday issued production order for Opposition Leader Shahbaz Sharif to ensure his presence in the upcoming session of the House held on Monday (October 29). The speaker issued production order under rule 108 of procedure and conduct of business in the National Assembly 2007. Under this rule, the speaker can call any arrested member of the National Assembly to participate in the session.
The members of the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday formally submitted an application to the National Assembly Secretariat, requesting the speaker to issue a production order for Opposition Leader and PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif so that he could attend the upcoming session of the House to start on October 29.
The application had been signed by former Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, ex-deputy speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Tahira Aurangzeb, Zehra Wadood Fatemi and PML-N Spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb. It was handed over to acting NA Secretary Qamar Sohail Lodhi.
Opposition Leader Shahbaz Shairf is presently in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore in the Ashiana Housing scam case. He was arrested by the NAB authorities on October 5 and since then he has been in detention on physical remand.
Earlier soon after the arrest of opposition leader, the PML-N members had submitted a requisition notice to the speaker who later called the session on October 17 after issuing the production order for Sharif.
In the previous session of the National Assembly, Shahbaz Sharif had been specially brought to the Parliament House by the NAB authorities for the one-day session in which Sharif revealed the questions being asked to him by the investigators, alleging that there was an unholy alliance between NAB and the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.
Last week, while talking to reporters, Prime Minister Imran Khan also criticised Shehbaz Sharif for his speech in the National Assembly and alleged that the opposition leader had used the parliamentary floor for a media trial of NAB.
The PML-N members has also recently submitted two adjournment motions in the National Assembly Secretariat against the government's recent decisions about media regulatory authority and abolition of subsidy on Metro bus services. According to the sources, the opposition parties are expected to lodge a protest over the government's move to increase power tariff.
JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had already announced that his party is planning another multiparty conference of the opposition parties to be held on October 31 in Islamabad in an effort to devise a joint strategy against the PTI government.
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