ISLAMABAD, January 29, 2013: The National Assembly unanimously passed three bills in the 6th sitting of the ongoing 49th session, which met for three hours and one minute on Tuesday. Eighty-eight members were present at the outset, 60 at the time of adjournment while a maximum of 152 members were present at one point of sitting.
ISLAMABAD, January 26, 2013: The fifth sitting of the 49 session of the National Assembly witnessed low members attendance on Saturday. Only 18 members were present at the outset and 30 were there at the time of adjournment.
ISLAMABAD, January 24, 2013: The National Assembly addressed five of the seven agenda items appearing on the agenda in the fourth sitting of the ongoing 49th session, which met for an hour and 22 minutes on Thursday.
ISLAMABAD, January 23, 2013: The 3rd sitting of the ongoing 49th session of National Assembly was marked by low attendance as a single treasury bill was passed. Legislators raised a large number of POs consuming an hour and 44 minutes of the sitting time.
In the 342
ISLAMABAD, January 22, 2013: Most of the agenda appearing on the Orders of the Day was left unaddressed in the second sitting of the 49th session of National Assembly, which met for two hours and 21 minutes on Tuesday.
The sitting, which started 35 minutes late, was marked by low attendance
ISLAMABAD, January 21, 2013: Thirteen points of order consumed 65% of the sitting time of the first sitting of 49th session, which met for four hours on Monday. Most of agenda items appearing on the Orders of the Day were left unaddressed.
Fifty-six members were present at the outset while 47
ISLAMABAD, December 21, 2012: The 10th and the last sitting of the 48th session of the National Assembly was marked by low members’ attendance as the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Speaker, Deputy Speaker along with the parliamentary leaders of MQM, MMAP, ANP, PMLF and BNPA did not attend the sitting.
ISLAMABAD, December 21, 2012: The 48th session of National Assembly unanimously passed the Fair Trail Bill 2012 as the House witnessed low attendance leaving 62% of the agenda appearing on the Orders of the Day unaddressed, says Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN)
ISLAMABAD, December 20, 2012: The National Assembly, which met for four hours, unanimously passed the Investigation for Fair Trial Bill 2012 in the ninth sitting of the 48th session.
The Standing Committee on Law and Justice presented its report on the bill which
ISLAMABAD, December 19, 2012: Starting 33 minutes late, the 8th sitting of the ongoing National Assembly session continued to witness the low attendance of members as only 42 members (13% of the total membership) were present at the outset whereas 52 (16%) were there when the