Pakistan

President Zardari to address joint session of parliament on April 16

President summons session in exercise of the power conferred under Articles 54 (1) and 56(3) of Constitution

APP/NEWSDESK April 08, 2024

ISLAMABAD:

President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to address the joint session of the parliament on April 16, to mark the beginning of the parliamentary year, following the general elections.

The joint session of the parliament will be held on Tuesday, April 16, at 4pm, according to a President House press release.

He would address the joint session in pursuance of Article 56 (3) of the Constitution which states, “At the commencement of the first session after each general election to the National Assembly and at the commencement of the first session of each year the President shall address both Houses assembled together and inform the Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) of the causes of its summons.”

President Zardari summoned the joint parliamentary session in exercise of the power conferred under Articles 54 (1) and 56(3) of the Constitution.

Last month, Zardari, the coalition government's candidate for head of state took oath as the 14th President of Pakistan after securing 411 votes against his PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) presidential candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai’s 181 votes.

Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath at a ceremony at the Presidency. The event was attended by governors and chief ministers of all provinces except K-P CM Ali Amin Gandapur.

The ceremony had a special guest, the grandson of Zardari. Besides, ambassadors and high commissioners of more than 70 countries, including the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirate (UAE), also participated in the ceremony.

COMMENTS (1)

Rebirth | 7 months ago | Reply Billions being collected by Sindh and Karachi police and the Sindh bureaucracy goes to the Bilawal house. Those funds end up in Iran as a part of the supposedly divinely ordained Khums . Then Zardari s children Mohsin Naqvi and Malik Riaz do the same but since they have billions more than Zardari collects they re far more effective at indirectly funding terrorist Shiite militias in west Asia and also the Red Sea. In Yemen where they have blocked the Mediterranean the attack on global shipping has resulted in the permanent disruption of entire supply chains for thousands of industries. Just in Syria alone 16 million people out of a population of around 20 million have either been displaced have become refugees or live in abject poverty. That s about 80 of the population. Entire cities were wiped off the map. Their argument to recruit al-Zainabiyoon and al-Fatimiyoun was attacks on shrines by the Khawarij terrorists who were stopped from operating their franchises in Pakistan. That happened thankfully just in time or else we would ve had two monsters to deal with. As if our security forces don t already have their hands full. Can anyone possibly accept the theory that 80 of an entire country s population should have to face collective punishment for an attack on Shiite shrines that the vast majority of the Syrian population didn t have a problem with when pilgrims like Zardari visited them The Pakistani government s inability to choke these financial resources from heading on to Iran and then to Iranian proxies that have conducted the worst genocides known to mankind is a moral problem more than a law enforcement problem. Destroying 80 of an entire population because the Shiite land bridge from Iran to Lebanon was being disrupted. They have already been burning people alive in Iraq. This doesn t make us a party to their crimes but it truly does make us criminally negligent and we cannot be absolved of our unintentional aiding and abetting until we understand that these feudal lords and their new money newly rich crony capitalists are funding wars that are destroying entire populations in West Asia. Their animosity towards Syrians is actually a core part of their belief system. If you look at the intensity with which they ve conducted genocides in Syria Iraq Yemen and Lebanon the only country in the world with three times their population living as expats than at home and compare it to the wars waged against the Jews you d realize these funds were never meant to fight the so-called Zionists. And those providing these funds in Pakistan knew that as well. If there ll ever be a war tribunal which is unlikely because the victims were Muslims and not Jews Pakistan would be implicated because we have the second largest Shiite population in the world and our government s inability to stop the flow of funds and also Shiite terrorists is criminal negligence of the worst order.

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