Federal cabinet takes up proposed 26th constitutional amendment today

The draft of the proposed 26^th constitutional amendment is likely to be approved at the federal cabinet’s meeting, which is due to be held today, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Saturday.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will chair the meeting.

Once again timings of National Assembly and Senate session which are due to be held today were changed.

According to the latest announcement, the Senate session will now be held at 6.30 pm in the evening while National Assembly session will start at 7 pm.

It is necessary to mention here that today timings of Senate and National Sessions were changed for the third time.

Earli,er the Senate session was scheduled to start at 11:00 am which was later delayed to 12:30 pm, and then to 03:00 pm. Same happened with the National Assembly session.

The cabinet met on Friday night to okay the amendments before sending these to either House of the parliament for their passage, but concluded without approving them. Later the meeting was postponed until today.

Earlier in the day, in a major breakthrough, the special parliamentary committee, comprising government and opposition members, approved the draft of the amendments.

Chairman of the special committee Syed Khursheed Shah said the committee had ‘unanimously’ approved the draft.

According to details, the committee approved the constitutional package containing 36 points with most of the proposed amendments related to the judicial reforms.

According to sources, the committee gave the final approval for constructing the constitutional bench in the Supreme Court.