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Govt to seek extension in PPO from NABy Tanveer Ahmed
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led central government will move three separate resolutions in the National Assembly today (Thursday) to extend two anti-terrorism ordinances and Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) for further 120 days.
These ordinances will lapse in the next three days, starting from today. Though all the three ordinances would be tabled in today’s session of the House and are likely to be passed by the assembly on the back of thumping majority of the ruling party, but subsequent introduction of these anti-terrorism legislations in Senate may take some time before they are forwarded to the president for his assent to make them into law. Two anti-terrorism ordinances will lapse on February 7 and 9 while the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO) will lapse today.
The tabling of the resolutions for extension in these ordinances is meant to allow the operations against terrorism elements continue without any hindrance, parliamentary sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. Sources said that the government would also attempt to get passed all the legislations regarding these ordinances from at least the National Assembly, as all three ordinances in the form of bills have been included in the agenda of the next sitting of the House after their clearance from the relevant House committees. According to parliamentary sources, the stamp of the National Assembly is mandatory to extend these ordinances because after 18th Amendment, the president has been stripped of the powers to re-promulgate the ordinances. Also, the House can make the extension once and does not have the powers to do it again under the 18th Amendment, parliamentary sources pointed out. Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan will table all three resolutions in the coming sitting, according to copy of the agenda made available to Daily Times.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk