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PM SHEHBAZ SENDS ADVICE TO PRESIDENT FOR JOINT PARLIAMENTARY SESSION ON DEC 17
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STAFF REPORT
RIME Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday sent an advice to President Asif Ali Zardari for holding the joint parliamentary session on December 17, amid the impasse between the coalition government and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) over Madrasah Registration Bill. According to sources, the premier has advised the president to summon a joint session of parliament on Tues-
day at 11am, adding that eight bills including the contentious madrasah registration bill are likely to be tabled. They also added that a consultation process was underway between the government and the Maulana Fazlur Rehman-led party on a new bill after President Zardari had “raised eight objections” over the previous legislation — Societies Registration (Amendment) Bill 2024. The disputed madrasah bill, which has already been passed by both houses of parliament, has become a bone of contention between
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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CONTENTIOUS BILL EXPECTED TO BE TABLED FOLLOWING PRESIDENT’S OBJECTIONS
the JUI-F and the government. Its enactment was part of an agreement between the government and the religio-political party for supporting the 26th Amendment. Following its approval from parliament, the bill now requires the president’s assent to become law but President Asif Ali Zardari had returned the bill earlier this month, citing legal objections. According to the Constitution, the bill must be tabled before a joint sitting after the president refuses to sign.
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JUI-F ALLEGES GOVT OF ‘TRYING TO HAND OVER SEMINARIES TO FATF’
President’s objections to Madrasahs’ Bill have nothing to do with FATF: Tarar ISLAMABAD
STAFF REPORT
Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National Heritage and Culture Attaullah Tarar on Saturday said that the objections raised by President Asif Ali Zardari to the Madrasahs Registration Bill are completely “constitutional and legal”. “Neither there is any mention of
Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in these objections, nor they have any connection with it,” said the minister in a post on X formerly Twitter on Saturday. He said it is not in the interest of anyone to politicize the constitutional and legal matters. “Linking the registration of seminaries with FATF is nothing but a creation of complete imagination and speculation”, he said.