{"id":79699,"date":"2025-07-07T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=79699"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:02:50","slug":"pa-speaker-justifies-action-to-unseat-opposition-mpas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pa-speaker-justifies-action-to-unseat-opposition-mpas\/","title":{"rendered":"PA speaker justifies action to unseat opposition MPAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-assembly-okays-nawaz-sharif-cancer-institute-bill-2025\/\">Speaker Punjab Assembly<\/a> Malik Ahmed Khan has defended the references filed against the opposition members in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a media conference,<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-notifies-restoration-of-reserved-seats-following-supreme-court-ruling\/\"> Malik<\/a> said that he has always tried to discharge his duties fairly as the custodian of the house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always acted as a good custodian of the House, but I cannot permit the use of vulgar language on the assembly floor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tearing budget documents, climbing on desks, cannot be justified as democratic expression,&#8221; he said while adding that the right to protest must be within constitutional limits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I oppose Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution&#8230; they do grant the speaker the authority to take action when lawmakers violate the rules of parliamentary conduct.\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker noted that Articles 62 and 63 are\u00a0 \u201cremnants of dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It cannot be that these articles are selectively used. Either remove them from the Constitution or apply them uniformly,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a prime minister can be disqualified on false statements, then those who disrupt the sanctity of the House must also be held accountable,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The PMLN leader also offers the opposition for talks, &#8220;Sit down and talk. There\u2019s still time,&#8221; he said adding that the assembly cannot be allowed to become a theatre of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Days before his press conference, Malik Ahmad submitted a disqualification referral to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against 26 opposition MPAs supported by the PTI.<\/p>\n<p>Following the disturbances during the Punjab Assembly budget session, when opposition members yelled and interrupted the proceedings, the disqualification reference was submitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Speaker Punjab Assembly Malik Ahmed Khan has defended the references filed against the opposition members in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday. Addressing a media conference, Malik said that he has always tried to discharge his duties fairly as the custodian of the house. \u201cI have always acted as a good custodian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":79703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5136,29956],"class_list":["post-79699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-speaker-punjab-assembly","tag-malik-ahmed-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79702,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79699\/revisions\/79702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}