- No one will be allowed to take assemblies hostage: the speaker.
- He says that the demonstrations should comply with the Constitution.
- The conduct of the opposition was “beyond any parliamentary reasoning”.
In a notable decision against the disorderly conduct of the legislators, the president of the Punjab assembly, Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan, announced on Saturday the suspension of 26 members of the opposition benches on the heckling, the sloganering, the cry and the tearing of documents in the chamber.
“The sacred nature and the order of the Chamber will be maintained at all costs. The right of protest is recognized, but its limits are subject to the Constitution, the law and the rules,” said Khan during a press conference while referring to the conduct of the opposition to the Punjab assembly during the budgetary session on Friday for the 2025-26.
In an order dated June 27, the president, while exercising powers conferred under rule 210 (3) of the 1997 procedural rules, suspended the members of the opposition for a total of 15 assembly sessions.
The order stresses that the right of protest and freedom of expression involved reasonable limitations and was not an absolute right.
“When the session began, the conduct of opposition members has become disorderly, beyond any parliamentary and practical reasoning which is absolutely not authorized under the rules.
“They began to tear the papers of the agenda and launched torn pieces towards the benches of the treasury; used offensive abuses, and and non -parliamentary slogans; they also abused the members of the Treasury,” reads the order of the speaker.
Recalling that he has tried several times to call the Chamber to order, but the opposition refused to act in accordance with the rules and persisted in misconduct and disorder, Khan said that he concluded that the opposition had ignored his authority as president by abusing the rules in a coherent and voluntary manner obstructing the company of the Assembly.
List of suspended opposition members:
- Malik Farhad Masood
- Muhammad Tanveer Aslam
- Syed Riffat Mehmood
- Yasir Mehmood Qureshi
- Kaleem Ullah Khan
- Muhammad Ansar Iqbal
- Ali Asif
- Zulfiqar Ali
- Ahmad Mujtaba Chaudhary
- Shahid Javed
- Muhammad Ismael
- Khayal Ahmad
- Shahbaz Ahmad
- Tayyab Rashid
- Imtiaz Mehmood
- Ali Imtiaz
- Rashid Tufail
- Muhammad Murtaza Iqbal
- Khalid Zubair Nisar
- Ch Muhammad Ejaz Shafi
- Saima Kanwal
- Muhammad naeem
- Sajjad Ahmed
- Rana Aourang Zaib
- Shuaib ameer
- Usama Asghar Ali Gujjar
Speaking during the meter, President Khan stressed that he was his responsibility to ensure and maintain the sacred character of the Chamber.
Finding the behavior of the “regrettable” opposition, he said that he believed to maintain democratic and parliamentary traditions.
“No one will be authorized to take the hostage from the assembly,” said the speaker.
The goalkeeper of the Chamber also stressed that if a member had not accepted the rules, he was his responsibility to prevent him from entering the house.
On the move on Khan, said that he was sending a reference against 26 members of Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) to the Pakistan Electoral Commission (ECP).
