Islamabad:
The session of the National Assembly was postponed without any procedure on Wednesday after the government did not reach the quorum, following an objection raised by a member of the PTI.
The session, chaired by vice-president Ghumlam Mustafa Shah, was interrupted shortly after the start when PTI Mna Iqbal Afridi stressed the lack of quorum.
A 15 -minute break was announced to allow the government to bring together the required number of members, but attendance has remained insufficient even after the break. The session was then adjourned until 11 a.m. Friday (today).
During the session, only 76 members of the ruling coalition were present in the House. The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, was seen to make efforts to bring more members, but several PPP legislators left the chamber during the process. The MNA PPP Agha Rafiullah would have pointed out to his colleagues to leave the house, undermining the quorum.
Chaudhry then accused the PPP of deliberately saboto the quorum despite the government’s efforts to respond to the required figures. The PPP legislator, Ramesh Lal, was seen taunt the minister on his struggle to maintain attendance in the House.
Meanwhile, the Minister of the Interior Mohin Naqvi, in a written response during the session, informed the Assembly that the passports of 50,000 people were put on the black list at the request of FIA Balochistan for having tried to illegally penetrate Iran and the European countries.
People on the blacklist have been involved in illegal border crossings, a passport infringement, fraud and human smuggling. Persons affected can call on the deletion of their names in the black list approaching the general management of passports through the standard procedure.
On cybercrime, the Ministry of the Interior said that in 2024, the Cybercrime of the FIA recorded 13,722 requests for information related to online fraud. In total, 832 cases were recorded, leading to the arrest of 1,212 people.
