Constitutional Amendment: JUI-F presents its draft in parliamentary committee

Islamabad:  The Jamiat-e-Ulma-Islam (JUI-F) on Saturday presented its draft on proposed amendments before the parliamentary committee.

Special Parliamentary Committee Chairman Khursheed Shah chaired the committee session for debate and consensus of all political parties on the proposed constitutional amendment. 

The committee session concluded with the decision of forming a sub-committee and calling next session on Oct 17. 

Leaders of various political parties including PPP’s Raja Pervez Ashraf, Naveed Qamar, Sherry Rehman and PML-N’s Azam Nazir Tarar and Irfan Siddique participated in the meeting. 

Barrister Gohar and Omar Ayub representing the PTI also attended the meeting while Asad Qaiser joined the meeting through video link. Ijazul Haq, Farooq Sattar, Aminul Haq National Party’s Jan Buledi also attended the session. 

However, JUI-F President Fazlur Rehman and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari didn’t join the committee session. The session on joint draft of PPP and JUI-F would be held in Zardari House. On Friday, the PPP presented its draft in committee’s session.