
Joint parliament session to be held at 3 pm today
ISLAMABAD: The joint parliament session will be held under the chair of National Assembly (NA) Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf at 3:00 pm today, ARY News reported.
The lawmakers from both houses will hold debates on matters related to the economy, security and law and order in today s joint parliament session.
The PTI senators have already announced to attend the parliament s session today. Prior to today s announcement, the PTI lawmakers had announced to boycott the session.
Earlier in the day, it was learnt that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf decided to attend a joint session of parliament, which was earlier adjourned till March 27.
Sources privy to the development told ARY News that PTI senators will participate in tomorrow s joint sitting of parliament.
The opposition leader in Senate Dr Saleem Shehbaz summoned a meeting of PTI parliamentarians in this connection. The session will be held at 2 pm tomorrow at parliament house, say sources. The meeting will formulate a joint strategy for joint sitting of parliament.
It is pertinent to mention here that President Dr Arif Alvi has summoned session of the National Assembly on Monday at 12:00 noon, whereas the joint session of parliament will also resume on the same day at 3:00 pm. Issues of national importance will be discussed in both sessions.