NA session likely to be convened on Aug 12: minister

ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Law, Barrister Ali Zafar has said the Session of National Assembly was likely to be convened from August 12 to 14.

Speaking to media persons outside the Supreme Court, Barrister Ali Zafar said a summary had been sent to the president for convening the NA Session.

The minister said the newly elected members would take oath in the assembly session, adding the assembly would then elect the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House.

He said under the constitution, it was compulsory to summon the National Assembly session before August 15.

Barrister Ali Zafar said, it was also expected that sessions of all the provincial assemblies would also be called on the same dates.

He said, at the first step all newly-elected members would take oath and then new speaker and deputy speaker would be elected

followed by election of prime minister. This whole process might take three to four days. He said that process of nomination papers, scrutiny of nomination papers and the election for the three posts would be time consuming.

He further said as soon as the newly-elected prime minister would take oath, the job of the caretakers would be over and power would be transferred to the newly elected government under the law and the Constitution.

Ali Zafar said that it was the desire of caretaker Prime Minister Nasir-ul-Mulk that the newly elected prime minister could attend the August 14 ceremony of Independence Day along with the president but completion of the election process was the hurdle. Replying to a question, He said the ECP had asked the caretaker government for holding inquiry into the failure of RTS and the government was looking into it.