ISLAMABAD: The 27th Constitutional Amendment bill was tabled by Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar in the Senate on Monday for voting after PPP Senator Farooq H Naek presented a report of the joint parliamentary committee on the bill, ABN News reported.
As the bill was presented, members of the opposition parties erupted in protest and staged a walkout while chanting slogans against the government and its coalition parties. Lawmakers tore up copies of the bill and hurled them toward the minister’s table.
Meanwhile, Senate Chairman Yousaf Raza Gilani, presiding over the proceedings, read out the amended clauses for voting, which were one by one sailed through the Senate after gaining the support of a two-thirds majority, 64 senators, from the Upper House of the Parliament.
PTI’s Saifullah Abro and JUI’s Ahmed Khan, who reportedly went out of contact with their respective parties, also gave their vote in favour of the Amendment.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senators, on the instructions of the central leadership, boycotted the process while Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam (JUI) remained absent from the proceedings.
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