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NA resolution rejects the SC order on Punjab polls, 'binds' PM to reject 'minority' decision 2023

  he National Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to reject the decision of the three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) — which had instructed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to conduct snap polls in the country. Moved by Balcohsitan Awami Party (BAP) lawmaker Khalid Magsi and approved by a majority of the lawmakers, the resolution "bound" Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his cabinet to ensure that the "unconstitutional" decision was not implemented.  Read more about Streaming   Read More Here more about Streaming   Read More Find more about Streaming   Read More Details more about Streaming   Read More

After PM Shehbaz, Maryam Nawaz flays CJP's remarks about lawmakers

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday took exception to Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Umar Ata Bandial for his remarks regarding the "jail terms" some parliamentarians had served. On March 31, during the hearing of the election delay case in the apex court, CJP Bandial said that the parliament had people "who were till yesterday in captivity, imprisoned, declared traitors" and now they talk like respectable individuals because they were elected representatives. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had also come down hard on these observations by the chief justice in a hard-hitting speech at the floor of the National Assembly. "When the parliamentarians were talking about the Constitution and the law, you taunted them", Maryam said while addressing a lawyers' convention in Rawalpindi flanked by federal ministers Azam Nazeer Tarar, Rana Sanaullah and Marriyum Aurangzeb. The PML-N leader w...