Speaker summons NA session on Monday

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Speaker National Assembly Murtaza Javed Abbassi summoned the National Assembly session on Monday evening (February 2).
The session is summoned on the requisition of the opposition which was submitted in the National Assembly Secretariat ten days ago (January 20) with a signature of 95 opposition legislators of PPP, MQM, Jamat-e-Islami, PML-Q, Qaumi Watan Party, ANPO, FATA and independent members of the National Assembly on a one point agenda to discuss the petrol crisis that badly hit the country in mid of the current month.
The Speaker National Assembly was bound to convene a session within 14-days on a
submission of the requisition for the National Assembly session under article 54 (3) of the Constitution. It is expected that requisite session of the National Assembly will continue either a day or two as the schedule session of the National Assembly started from February 9.
In the requisite session, it was the responsibility of the opposition to maintain the quorum for running business of the House. In the meanwhile, the PPP had already submitted the adjournment motion in the National Assembly Secretariat on the government inefficiency that created a fuel shortage in the country while demanding that the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Water and Power are responsible for the present state of affairs and all three ministers should take responsibility and give their statements in the House.
The adjournment motion submitted in the National Assembly Secretariat by PPP legislators Ms Nafisa Shah, Ms Shazia Mari, Ms Azra Fazal, Naveed Qamar and Abdul Sattar Bachani through which they drew attention of the government to an urgent public matter of the acute shortage of petrol in the country, compounded by electricity and gas loadshedding which has added to the miseries of the people especially in the province of Punjab.
The PPP in its adjournment motion stated the reports that the PIA, Railways, IPPs have not paid their dues to PSO reflects failure of the government generally,” the adjournment motion stated.
Through the adjournment motion, the PPP legislators demand answers and explanations especially as the international fuel prices have fallen below $50 a barrel and this provided an excellent opportunity to the government to fix the energy crisis facing the country.