Pervaiz Elahi forms special committee
LAHORE (Nov 22, 2019): Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi formed a seven-member special committee to resolve the matter of the PML-N members resigning from the standing committees of the Punjab Assembly.
The seven-member parliamentary committee headed by Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi will examine the demands for the resignation of opposition members and to appoint Hamza Shahbaz as the Public Accounts Committee-1 (PAC) chairman.
According to details, the team will review the demands of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders for their return to standing committees.
The development came after Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaisar accepted the resignation of Opposition Leader in National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif from the post of chairman of PAC.
The PML-N president said his party had decided to appoint Rana Tanveer Hussain as PAC chairman and that he was bound to follow the decision.
Punjab Minister for Law Basharat Raja, Minister for Public Prosecution Chaudhry Zaheer-ud-Din and Provincial Transport Minister Jehanzeb Khan will represent the government while PML-N lawmaker Chaudhry Iqbal, senior MPA Samiullah Khan and Malik Nadeem Kamran are also included in the committee.
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