PML-N vying to get production order for Hamza

Opposition criticises government over summoning session late

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) core committee will assemble Tuesday (today) to meet with Deputy Speaker for the sake of production orders of opposition leader Hamza Shehbaz Sharif and Khawaja Salman Rafique.

The committee, on its second priority, will also plan how to perform in Punjab Assembly’s session scheduled to be held on August 21.

Sources claimed that they would make their all-out effort to convince Deputy Speaker Sardar Dost Muhammad Mazari in his chamber on Tuesday (today).

A PML-N MPA said his party knows well that the government would not issue the production orders because instructions matter in PA not any assembly rules which clearly give authority to the speaker to issue production orders of the arrested MPAs.

Some MPAs also came hard on PTI government claiming they had proposed the government to summon the house on August 15 as they wanted to pass resolution against India but the government summoned the session on the last day of the 14 days (a time frame of the assembly rules of summoning session on the request of the opposition).

Physical remand of Hamza Shahbaz extended

PML-N’s Azma Zahid Bukhari said it was regrettable that the government summoned the session on the last day rather than August 15 when the whole nation was observing a black day against India.

Physical remand of Hamza Shahbaz extended

Punjab Minister for Colonies Fayazul Hasan Chohan condemned the opposition’s conduct claiming the PML-N lawmakers did not want to speak on Kashmir issue adding they just want production orders of their master Hamza Shehbaz Sharif.

He said PML-N wants what he called “Azadi of their leaders from NAB’s custody in the garb of debating on Azadi of Kashmiris”.

He said they have no agenda to speak for the poor people in assembly, they get submitted a requisition for summoning session merely for the sake of production orders.

It is worth mentioning that it is the third Punjab Assembly’s session that is going to be held on the requisition of opposition but the government did not issue production orders in the last two sessions.

The opposition legislators had also submitted resolutions and an adjournment motion in assembly’s secretariat also lashing out at the government for not issuing production orders of their leader Hamza Shehbaz Sharif and Khawaja Salman Rafique.

In the previous house proceedings on July 15 the debate between the opposition and treasury lawmakers took an interesting turn when both sides seemed to interpret Punjab Assembly’s rules of procedure by their own choices on a matter of issuing production orders.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 20^th, 2019.