Governor summons Sindh Assembly session on August 7

Karachi
Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan has summoned a session of the provincial assembly on August 7 issues pertaining to the extension of anti-terror powers and stay of Rangers are expected to come up in the sitting.
The session has been summoned on the request of Sindh government.
Earlier, Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah had stated that after the 18th Amendment the assent of provincial assembly was necessary for granting extension in powers or stay of paramilitary forces became necessary under Article 147 of the constitution.
About a month ago, the Sindh government had granted a month’s extension for the anti-terror and policing powers of Sindh Rangers under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, applicable only to the Karachi division.
The Sindh government had also extended duration of Rangers’s stay in the province in the province by a year after its validity expired on July 19.
However, parliamentary leader of the main opposition party in Sindh, the Muttahida Quami Movement, Syed Sardar Ahmed, said summoning a session of the provincial assembly on the request of the government was not legally correct.
He said the session should have been summoned by the Sindh Assembly Speaker before July 30, since the lawmakers from his party had on July 16 submitted a requisition for convening a session of the House.
Instead of acting upon the requisition, he said, the government had gone to summon a session by itself.
The MQM’s parliamentary leader said that the MQM had been in consultation with legal experts for adopting the next course of action.