Pervaiz for strengthening traditions of parliament

LAHORE:Government and Opposition Joint Committee on PML-N members’ resignations from the Standing Committees of the Punjab Assembly was held under chairmanship of Speaker Punjab Assembly Pervaiz Elahi at the Assembly Chambers here on Monday. Addressing the meeting, Pervaiz Elahi said that the matters between the government and the opposition should not go towards point of no-return and the opposition should refrain from extreme step like resignations. He said the opposition role in the legislation matters of fundamental importance as such there should be no obstruction between the government and the opposition over the legislation matters. He directed the government and the opposition MPAs to play their role in strengthening the traditions of the parliament.

Speaker Punjab Assembly asked the government and the opposition to submit recommendations regarding Chairman Public Accounts Committee. Law Minister Raja Basharat said: “We want to take the opposition along. We have held talk to alleviate their reservations which has been very positive.” Committee's Opposition members Nadeem Kamran, Samiullah Khan and Iqbal Gujjar said that the meeting was held in a better atmosphere and we have presented our submissions to the govt and the Speaker on which after completion of home work by both sides time for next meeting will be fixed.