President summons Senate session on April 14

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Tuesday summoned a session of the Senate at the Parliament House for Monday April 14, according to a press release issued by the Senate Secretariat.

This will be 103rd session of Senate.

The meeting has been summoned under clause 1 of Article 54 of the Constitution.

A notification for the session was subsequently issued.

It is expected that the session will deliberate over the Protection of Pakistan Bill which was passed in the National Assembly on Monday.

Earlier, the floor of the National Assembly was strewn with scraps of paper, the remnants of the Pakistan Protection Ordinance (PPO), passed during Monday night’s assembly session amid furore from the opposition against the controversial bill.

Even as Federal Minister for Science and Technology Zahid Hamid claimed the opposition was taken into confidence before the bill was tabled, members of the PML-N had to huddle around Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq’s seat, protecting him against a crowd of opposition members.

The PPO is a document that declares all peace-disrupting elements as ‘enemies of the state’, and states protection of life to be the state’s top priority.