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ISLAMABAD: Amid stories of presidency summoning a joint session of parliament for the passage of key laws, President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday held assembly with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.
The president together with Minister for Interior Senator Mohsin Naqvi arrived at Fazl’s residence within the federal capital.
The assembly was additionally attended by JUI-F leaders together with Maulana Abdul Ghafoor, Maulana Asad Mehmood, Aslam Ghauri and Engineer Ziaur Rehman.
Both leaders held detailed deliberation on potential key laws prone to be tabled within the joint sitting subsequent week.
Without divulging particulars of the laws, the sources stated necessary issues together with present political scenario additionally got here underneath dialogue.
During the assembly, Zardari additionally gifted a gun to Maulana Fazl.
Meanwhile, the federal authorities has reportedly determined to summon the joint session of parliament on August 28. Sources claimed that the lawmakers have been instructed to make sure their presence within the assembly.
President Zardari has additionally summoned the session of the National Assembly on August 26 (Monday) and the Senate on August 27 (Tuesday) underneath Article 54(1) of the Constitution.
The assembly got here two days after after PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari met Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to deliberate on the continuing political scenario and focus on potential key laws.
Sources instructed Geo News that the coalition authorities led by PM Shehbaz took the PPP management into confidence on the “necessary laws”.
It is pertinent to say right here that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and JUI-F had reached a consensus on cooperation within the National Assembly and the Senate.
The consensus was reached following PTI leaders’ assembly with Fazl on the latter’s residence a day earlier.
Speaking to journalists after the assembly, PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan stated that it was a gathering between management of two events including that negotiating groups of two sides would proceed to fulfill and transfer ahead within the National Assembly and the Senate with mutual session.
For his half, JUI-F’s Ziaur Rehman famous that the events’ committees will resolve issues concerning legislative points within the National Assembly and the Senate.
Rehman additional stated {that a} two-member committee comprising Senators Shibli Faraz and Kamran Murtaza will cope with legislative issues within the higher home.
